Time to Stand Up to the Gun Nuts The week Wisconsin's new concealed carry law passed, "no guns allowed" signs started going up all over town. I'll never forget the first morning I saw the picture of a gun with a line through it posted on the front door of my daughter's day care center. Seeing those signs in the windows of restaurants, offices, and the toy store across the street from the Capitol was a shock. But the more of them I saw, the more they seemed to mark little islands of sanity in a society that has been taken over by the gun nuts. The week after the movie theater massacre in Colorado, I was on Wisconsin Public Radio with a conservative who suggested that people should boycott businesses that post no-guns signs. Not only did he reject the idea that we should consider limiting access to assault weapons and magazines that fire hundreds of rounds of ammunition at a time, he insisted that public opinion is on the side of letting people carry military-style guns wherever they go. Like other Republicans, including Wisconsin's attorney general J.B. Van Hollen, he suggested that the real problem in Colorado was that there weren't more people carrying guns into the movie theater, so they could shoot back. This extreme, dystopian view of the world would be laughable if it were not, increasingly, the way we now live. Ever since 1994, when the NRA successfully targeted Democrats in swing districts who had