Wis. DA says he won't prosecute some gun laws

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MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin prosecutor said he won't enforce a host of state weapons laws after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week Americans have a right to own a gun for self-defense.

Jackson County District Attorney Gerald R. Fox said in a statement he will no longer prosecute Wisconsin's prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons, transporting uncased or loaded guns in vehicles, carrying guns in public buildings and taverns and carrying switchblades and butterfly knives. He said the Supreme Court's ruling renders those statutes unconstitutional.

"These so-called 'public safety' laws only put decent law-abiding citizens at a dangerous disadvantage when it comes to their personal safety, and I for one am glad that this decades-long era of defective thinking on gun issues is over," Fox wrote in the statement, released this week.

He ended the statement with "Let Freedom Ring."

Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said he was stunned. He said Fox is inviting crime into his county and if he won't enforce the state's laws he should be removed from office.

"To announce this publicly, to tell all these would-be scofflaws they can go ahead and break the law, makes matters worse," Hamm said.

Fox, a Democrat with self-described Libertarian leanings, faces re-election in 2012. He said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press but if the Brady Campaign wants to mount a recall drive, the organization should "bring it on."

That's another Democrat that will get an A+ rating from the NRA.

The Chief of Police objects, saying:

Donald Gilberg, chief of police in Black River Falls, the county seat, said he'll continue to enforce the city's gun ordinances that mirror the state's bans on concealed weapons, entering a bar with a gun and possessing a switchblade. Gilberg said he doesn't want a "wild west atmosphere" in his town.

"Ten minutes after publication of the district attorney's decision, every wannabe Wyatt Earp in this county will strap on their hog leg and strut about town not because they need to protect themselves, but because they can," Gilberg said in a statement. "This will have a chilling effect on the community."

Where have we heard the "Wild West" bullcrap before? The anti-RKBA types always bring it out, and it hasn't happened yet.

Prediction: Fox will win reelection handily.

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1. Good for him ----He will be overwhemingly Re-Elected

The "Cop" (Donald Gilberg) in this case should be given his walking papers. Asswipes like him are responsible for many good Democrats losing to Corporate Panderers

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2. This is good. Maybe some will follow this example.

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3. Smart move. It saves his state money from legal battles ...

that would be lost.

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4. A True Progressive. He refuses to enforce unconstitutional laws. N/T

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5. I wish I lived there so I could vote for him!

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6. I may send some money his way in 2012.

I doubt he will need it but might help to show idiots like Chief Gilberg to see DA win re-election with largest level of support ever.