I'm doing some research on employers that enforce an anti-freedom bias on their employees.  I was inspired by the recent American Rifleman article and some other events.  I'm just getting started but I ran across this "Hiring Guide" and I would rather not pay the $20.00 for it.  Does anyone else have access to it?  If so can you tell we if it says anything about gun ownership or free speech advocates?  A sample of the description of the guide:

This guide presents valuable tools and approaches:

• Critical Behavior Traits
• Checklist for Evaluating Resumes
• Important Questions to Include in the Employment Application
• Interviewing Techniques
• Reference and Background Checking
• Employment Verification and Release Form

If not it, how about any similar hiring guides--even if they are specific to a particular company.

Thanks.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinon, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

H.L. Mencken
MicroNews
[This doesn't mean that all aberration is a form of human progress.  Just as in DNA mutations--most of the mutants are not viable.  -Joe-]

Barb and I went to Moscow Mountain for some geocaching this morning.  It was a most successful and rewarding trip.  First we replaced the Moscow Mountain High ammo can with the bullet hole in it:

Then we found Moscow Mountain Higher which we were not able to find on our last trip out on June 4th:

More pictures can be found here.

The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by rule of construction be conceived to give the Congress the power to disarm the people.

William Rawle
1825
He was offered the position of the first U.S. Attorney General, by President Washington.

With a hat tip to Neaderpundit--The Archangel posts some 'interesting' news.  First he says the FBI wants to talk to him.  Next he says a Fatwah has been issued against him.  Like that is going to help convince the public Islam is a religion of peace.  [sarcasm] I'll bet this will convince another 10 or 20 percent of the population that the U.S. is wrong to be fighting terrorists. [/sarcasm]

I think his response, while appropriate, doesn't go as far as I would take it.  He only says:

 If you attempt to do anything to me, to my friends, to anyone I care about; I WILL KILL YOU. I will not simply defend myself, I WILL kill you, and while you are dying I will piss on you.

I have jsut rolled all my bullets in pig fat. I'm going to start carying around pieces of swine flesh with me; and I'll shove them into your wounds, then force feed them to you. Then I'll cut your cock and balls off and shove them down your throat.

I am heavily armed at all times, I have booby trapped my car and my home, and I am waiting for you. If you come after me or mine, you will die, and I will make damned sure you won't see paradise for all eternity you evil motherfuckers.

Having given this some thought after the Russian school incident last year I would be a bit more creative.  I have reproduced my inclinations for dealing with such 'people' from that post below:

This is my latest thought which should, of course, be video taped for our websites and the news.

1. Strip them naked.
2. Stake them to ground in a pen full of hungry pigs.
3. Let them be eaten alive (or dead if they had previously absorbed excess lead).
4. There should be close ups of their genitals being ripped off and chewed by the pigs.
5. Close ups as the manure with bits of hair and bone come out the other end.
6. Package up the manure and put it in “bombs“.  We were using laser guided concrete “blocks” during parts of the war so this should be easy enough.
7. Drop the bombs on their mosques.

If Archangel needs any help with guns, explosives, or pigs I'm available to help with expertise in all those areas and the time to contribute--Thank you PNNL.

I heard a story the other day from a long time cop in New York City.  The cops don't give first aid to anybody when they arrive at the aftermath of a crime scene anymore.  The roll up their windows and yell at the victims to sit down on the curb and wait for the paramedics to arrive.

Well, this cop and a rookie went to the scene and several young blacks came out of an alley all cut up and shot up, one had blood squirting out of his chest.  The cops rolled up their windows as the victims approached the car and the victims said, "Hey!  There was some niggers in there that was try'n to kill us".  This being almost entirely black area of town the cops yelled back, "You'll have to be more specific.  Which niggers were trying to kill you?"  The victims described them as best they could, standing there, blood dripping and squirting.  All but one of them finally sat down on the curb to wait for the paramedics.  The long time cop finally asked the one still standing if he was feeling a little short of breath.  The victim took a couple breaths and said, "Yeah!  I guess I am."  "How about dizziness?  Nausea?  Anything like that?", the cop asked.  The guy, looked off in the distance and thought for a couple seconds.  "Yeah, I suppose.  Why you asking me all this?"   "Well", said the cop, "Most people shot up as bad as you are, are already dead."  The victims eyes rolled back to complete whites and he toppled straight backwards on the concrete.  The rookie cop turned to his partner and said, "Jesus!  I ain't even HEARD of anybody killing someone that way."

The point of the story is that you don't stop fighting until the fight is over.  You don't need to go down just because you have taken a few hits.  As long as you believe you can keep going you will.  If you do go down, you are still going to win because you are going to gnaw through his Achilles' tendon and bring him down to where you can rip his head off.

Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995

Walter Gaya was one of the Boomershoot 2004 instructors.  Information about the incident which injured him and is here.  Thanks to AMcLane who left a comment on Kim du Toit's blog.

I'm off to pick her up in Colfax.  She has been gone for two weeks.  We really missed her.  Everytime she has called she says she misses her cat but never anything about missing her parents.  I offered to bring her some of his body parts when I pick her up.

Update: No hug for me when I picked her up.  No hug while we were at Wal-Mart.  No hug when we arrived at home--except for her cat.  After her cat got a hug then I got something that technically could be considered a hug lasting a few milliseconds.  Does anyone have a pattern for making a pair of gloves, size large, out of the hide of one large domestic cat?

Cryptography is an enormously powerful tool that needs to be controlled, just as we control bombs and rockets.

David A. Lytel
Co-founder and managing partner Democrats.com

I received this in the latest news email from the University of Idaho here in Moscow where I live.   

Lawrence Johnston, a UI physics professor emeritus, traveled to Washington, D.C. this week to recall the 1945 detonation of the first nuclear weapon. The July 14 symposium marked the 60th anniversary of Trinity, the first manmade nuclear explosion. Johnston witnessed the successful early morning test July 16, 1945, and the later use of nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. He is believed to be the only person to witness all three. He lives in Moscow with his wife, Millie.

Johnson, if I recall correctly, invented and received a patent on the detonator for one of the bombs.  He also, again if I recall correctly, built a lot of the instrumentation used to record the effects in the planes that dropped the bombs.  And since they hadn't asked him to teach anyone else how to run the instrumentation when it came time to drop "the big ones" on Japan he was the only person that knew how to operate the equipment.  Whoops!  He's was required to go on both missions.

If someone says London was bombed because of their involvement in Iraq, or the U.S. involvement in the Mideast was the reason for the repeated attacks (USS Cole, World Trade Center bombing, WTC and Pentagon hit with planes, etc.) we suffered then ask them to think about this:

More than 80 Iraqis have been killed in at least 11 suicide attacks since London had its first taste of suicide bombings a week ago today. In the first half of this year more than 1,000 Iraqis have died in about 130 suicide attacks. It has been a sustained terror assault that has steadily grown in intensity and has no precedent in Israel, Beirut or anywhere else.

The Islamic extremists are killing thousands of Iraqis.  Many, if not most, of them are Muslim.  Further food for thought is available in the same article:

THE local kids rushed to greet the US patrol. “Hello, Mister,” they cried to the American soldiers, who started handing out chocolate bars and keyrings. At that moment a car sped from a side street and exploded right next to the crowd gathered around the Humvee.

More than 30 Baghdad youngsters, aged between six and 15, were killed yesterday in a suicide bombing that marked a new level of depravity even in a city used to daily carnage.

...

One woman, Hana Ali, failed to find her 11-year-old son at the hospital. When she returned to the blast scene, she found his head in the rubble.

“They killed all the children of the neighbourhood,” wept Radhi Hamud, but he was one of the “lucky” ones. His 13-year-old son, Husam, was among another 30 or so children who were merely maimed. Husam lost both his legs.

So what's the motivation?  Osama bin Laden told us.  And in this fight, who is a legitimate target (credit to Clayton Cramer)?

Asked what constituted a legitimate target, Bakri said: “We don’t make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and non-believers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity.”

Think about it.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.

Henry Kissinger
[Although he said this decades before on another topic it could have been said about the Kelo decision.]

A few months ago I was asked to help a couple of college kids blow up a car for a movie they were making.  Ry and I agreed and then as the time grew near things changed for the kids and the project fell apart.  I still chat online with one of them occasionally and he has a new project he is working on.  It's called Wolfman's Cabin.  It's described as a horror movie and I don't like horror movies.  But from talking to the director this would be a movie I would probably see anyway.  It's more than just horror...

James came back from his visit with friends in Oregon. He brought a bunch of fish with him.  They went fishing in a nearby river and James did his first successful fishing.  Did he like fishing?  "It was boring when the fish weren't biting.  When there was one on the line it was kinda fun."

Had we, his parents suggested he should try fishing he would have put on his shirt that says, in big letters across the front:

Keep out of direct sunlight

Then he would have glared at us as if we had suggested he give up his video games.

I got a call from a fellow shooter about an hour ago.  He asked if had read the latest American Rifleman magazine.  "How recent?" I asked.  "I just got it in the mail today."  "Definitely not.  What's up?"  He told me and I ran out to the mailbox to find my copy of the magazine.

The article is titled "If You Hunt or Own a Gun... You're Fired!"

The URL associated with this article http://www.nra.org/URfired is broken.  Does anyone have a URL that works?

Update: Here is a scanned version of the article:

Click on the picture to see the full sized article.

Update2: The related info just keeps coming in.  I just got an email with a link to this:

Guns in the Workplace:
State Laws v. Employer's Rights
Duration: 3 hours
Cost: $169

Changes in state concealed weapon laws have created additional burdens on employers. Workplace shootings nearly doubled from 2002 to 2003, increasing from 25 to 45 incidents. The number of employees killed in these shootings rose from 33 to 69. A recent study found that workplaces with policies that permitted guns were five times more likely to experience homicides than those that prohibited weapons.

Get the information and resource you need to ensure a safe and weapon free workplace. Learn why your workplace needs to address weapons in the workplace, changes in state concealed weapon laws, model policy and guidelines and best practices for enforcement.

Update3: An email from a friend:

I seriously question this assertion;

"A recent study found that workplaces with policies that permitted guns were five times more likely to experience homicides than those that prohibited weapons." Where can that be verified?

My response:

There is a pretty good chance it's true. But almost for certain it includes armed robbers having their I.Q. reduced to zero from lead poisoning under the category of "experienced homicides" at a workplace. They aren't lying, they just don't distinguish being unjustified, justified, and praiseworthy homicide. Another point to be made is that workplaces at high risk are the ones that are most likely to allow firearms--hence it's not the cause and effect they want to imply that results in homicides. Instead it's homicides are likely hence firearms are allowed.

If I wanted to spend enough time on it I think I could find the statistics. But I don't think it's worth the effort at this point.

Update4: Another item from the August 2005 issue of American Rifleman:

And editorial by Wayne LaPierre.  Click on the picture to see the full sized article.

Kim du Toit reports on Walter who was one of the Boomershoot instructors in 2004:

Folks, I just heard that SSGT Walter Gaya (the “Walter” in the Walter-Adam Fund) was slightly injured by shrapnel caused by an IED in Mosul.

Thankfully, his wounds aren’t too bad ("He has a wound to one eye [he said he could still see out of it just after it happened] and a wound to his leg that has something to do with his tendon," from Adam’s Mom), and he’s recovering nicely, and in good spirits, at the Army hospital in Landstuhl. He’ll be returning Stateside for full recuperation and rehab.

Go read the rest as well. Kim is asking for a donation for Walter's wife.  I don't even have a job right now and I donated $10--you can do the same.

If a law containing the word "gun" or "firearm", etc.... would still describe an illegal act regardless of that word, the word should be removed as being unnecessary.  Furthermore, laws that describe mere possession of an item (that can be safely controlled and maintained by the possessor) as the punishable "act" are not "reasonable" ...

Paul Smith
Email Sept 3, 2001, 7:13 PM

I suck.

As I stated the other day I'm participating in the postal match put on by Analog Kid over at Random Nuclear Strikes.  I didn't even both to score the target.  But here are the results of the first contest:

I was using a AR-15 carbine.  The larger holes around the orange dots were from something else a few years ago.  Just the smaller holes in the 8.5" x 11" paper are important.  I got a few points but hardly enough to matter.  Another couple additional data points--I started with an empty gun, loaded magazine on the table in front of me and from the time I moved to pick up the gun until the last shot was 55 seconds.

Pathetic. 10 shots from 50 yards, "rapid fire", open sights, center-fire rifle, offhand.  I have hit 18" targets 7 times out of 10 at 200 yards offhand before ("infinite time between shots). This is terrible performance. I need to practice more.

Analog Kid at Random Nuclear Strikes asks:

Do you think the vast array of surveillance cameras in London helped even a tiny bit?

Security expert Bruce Schneier has this to say:

I was going to write something about the foolishness of adding cameras to public spaces as a response to terrorism threats, but Scott Henson said it already...

Henson has been blogging on this topic for quite a while and points out that when private businesses install cameras they can have some success.  When governments install cameras in public areas they have little positive effect.  England has millions of cameras but they are now to the point of outlawing certain types of clothes that thugs use to easily defeat the cameras.  And as long as you are allowed to wear clothes and carry backpacks, shopping bags, and brief cases in public there will be no surveillance system which can prevent crime or especially prevent terrorist activities.  Spending the resources on better intelligence and destroying the culture of terrorism is a much wiser plan of action.

You should be able to put the second bullet in the same hole as the first bullet. That's gun control.

Ted Nugent
July 2005
From http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/statesman/2005/07/11nugent.html