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In reply to the discussion: Make Gun Companies Pay Blood Money [View all]oneshooter
(8,614 posts)67. Yet automobiles manage to kill/injure a large percent of the population
even though they are NOT built or designed to do so.
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When will you start taxing Ford, Honda, Toyota, etc. for car crashes?
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2013
#2
Because the unsafe, illegal use of their legal product generates their best sales.
Robb
Jun 2013
#41
Their business model has come to depend upon that unsafe, illegal use of their legal product.
premium
Jun 2013
#42
Bullcrap? You've noted yourself the reactionary nature of gun buyers and gun buying.
Robb
Jun 2013
#44
Instead of trying to control unsafe and illegal use, you want to 'punish the sinners'...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2013
#45
You are skipping right over the critical question of responsibility: in every
petronius
Jun 2013
#54
"Manufacturers don't determine the intent of the end user." Yep, that's pretty much
petronius
Jun 2013
#109
I'm not dragging hunting in at all. It is irrelevant to the discussion.
Starboard Tack
Jun 2013
#111
Tobacco causes its harm when used for its proper, legal, and pretty-much the only
petronius
Jun 2013
#113
Air Soft guns do the same thing - but they are not designed to kill, unlike extender devices.
jpak
Jun 2013
#11
A significant difference between guns and other items treated this way, such as
petronius
Jun 2013
#4
Gun nutz claim all rifles are "assault rifles" because they were derived from military arms
jpak
Jul 2013
#116
The authors of the Op-Ed should have called for what they really want, to ban all guns.
SoutherDem
Jul 2013
#118