Reply #173: You keep making my points.

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This is why the NRA is so virulent. It's business, nothing personal. They are subverting the public good in an attempt to increase profits. They're bad Americans, but good capitalists. This is why they are by and large Republicans. If they didn't push so hard for "gun rights", they fear more companies might go under. After all, most people who want guns, already have them. Guns don't wear out like your car does, or your TV does. They're built to last. So how to they increase sales- well, like any capitalist they promote "new and better guns", they encourage multiple ownership, they turn it into a stylistic fad, like cars are a fad, or technology is a fad. You just simply must have the newest car, or the fastest computer, or the most um, lethal gun. Even if you don't need it. They also use xenophobia as a selling tactic, but that's a parallel point.

Personally, I don't see the sufferering of gun companies as a bad thing in the same way I don't see the suffering of tobacco companies as a bad thing. But that's just me.