Meantime, taking their cue from the Tobacco Nazis, the city of Philadelphia is trying to figure out how to sue gun manufacturers for their crime rate -- 414 homicides last year, according to conservative gabmeister Rush Limbaugh. "Expect the arguments to focus on how unsafe guns are, the lack of warning labels, the lack of formal training programs, etc." ... rather than simply improve public safety by legalizing concealed "Vermont carry." The notion that gun manufacturers can be sued for manufacturing a faulty product is somewhat bizarre, of course, if the product (rather than blowing up in the user's hand, say) did precisely what it was intended to do. If America's socialist mayors and city councils are going to play this brand of roulette, at least the odds should be evened. Why don't the firearms manufacturers go ahead and offer to pay the municipalities, say, $500,000 for every innocent citizen killed by one of their products (except by the government's own police, of course) ... if the municipalities, in turn, will pay them $500,000 every time one of their weapons is used (by either police or commoner) to kill, wound, or drive away an intended rapist, robber, burglar or murderer ... or tax collector or other government agent acting in excess of his or her constitutionally delegated powers -- the main purpose for which the founders wanted to guarantee we had such instruments of liberty, in the first place. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin@lvrj.com. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com Voir Dire: A French term which means "jury stacking."