Walker’s Big Government Republicans Love Regulations, Contrary to Public Image and Gullible Conservative Voters.

The party of deregulation and small government? My ass.

When Scott Walker became governor, he and the GOP majority passed hundreds, maybe thousands of new burdensome regulations without blinking and eye. What’s so free market about the new tort reform laws protecting business from consumer lawsuits?

The biennial budget saw reams of new regulations usurping local government control away from cities, towns, villages and counties.

When the concealed carry law passed, more burdensome regulations were foisted off businesses, as well as the unwary public, in the form of signage and policy.

Uppity Wisconsin: Most people in Wisconsin say they will feel less safe with more guns on the street.  In a May survey done for the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, respondents said nearly by a 3 to 1 margin,  60% to 21%, that they will feel less safe, not safer, with the new law.

But this was the most egregious:

An employer who does not prohibit its employees from carrying concealed weapons will be given immunity from any lawsuits for any liability arising from that decision.

If that's not coercive, than I don’t know what is. Republicans rail about their “freedoms, and complain about picking winners and losers. But apparently that’s all just talk.

The new law flies in the face of the conservative libertarian “freedom” to choose, “picking winners and losers,” because it provides benefits to those with workplace carry rules, but not to workplace bans. And here you thought the party of deregulation was something real, instead of a marketing tool to garner votes.  

I’ve always said only a small percentage of gun crazy paranoids were pushing concealed carry, with the full weight of the NRA and CC groups nationwide, that made their case seem bigger than life or reflected actual demand.

BizTimes sent an e-mail to a wide variety of southeastern Wisconsin business executives, asking them to share their thoughts about the new law. Readers at BizTimes.com were asked, "Will your company allow employees and customers to carry concealed weapons in the workplace? Seventy-four percent answered, "No," and 26 percent answered, "Yes."

The more I see our gun toting freaks walking casually through our local stores and community, the more online purchases I will be making. Who would have thought the wild west had more restrictive gun laws than now?