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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-01-05 05:42 PM
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18. Funding the NRA is protected as free political speech
...for their funding of the NRA and the attempts to halt any sort of reasonable measures to stop all the murder?

That's your personal opinion. I believe the NRA would disagree. If you don't like what the NRA does you are free to speak out against them. You are also free to join them and become a voting member so that you have some input into the makeup of the NRA board of directors. But you cannot sue someone over a difference of political views.

You are saying that corporate cabals can do whatever they want in terms of affecting government policy and never, ever need to worry about security features and regulations?

Influencing public policy is protected political speech.

That is what you are saying - that people do not have a right 'shake things up a bit' 'have a paradigm shift' 'rebrand their fight for the poor'.

No, I said that nobody should be able to sue someone else for things that are beyond their control.

And who exactly decides what is a frivolous law-suit?

Generally judges throw them out, as they have just about every lawsuit brought against gun manufacturers.
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  -Republican hypocrisy: Gun control vs. Nuisance Lawsuits InternalDialogue  Feb-28-05 11:23 PM   #0 
  - Works for me...  bossfish   Mar-01-05 12:40 AM   #1 
  - 3000 dead a month in the USA by gun mishaps (murder, accident, suicide).  applegrove   Mar-01-05 01:37 AM   #2 
  - 35,000 a month die from tobacco  Toots   Mar-01-05 10:39 AM   #6 
  - Murders and suicides are not mishaps  slackmaster   Mar-01-05 10:54 AM   #8 
  - I don't think I'd call murder and suicide mishaps.  ArkDem   Mar-01-05 10:56 AM   #9 
     - I should have put 'mishaps' in quotes. I thought it was obvious but  applegrove   Mar-01-05 03:37 PM   #11 
        - We already did that in 1934  slackmaster   Mar-01-05 04:57 PM   #15 
           - Wookay - it is only 16,000 people killed and most of those are young?  applegrove   Mar-01-05 05:33 PM   #17 
              - The glass is half-empty of half-full  slackmaster   Mar-01-05 05:48 PM   #19 
                 - Truly innocent people rarely get murdered? What planet are you on?  applegrove   Mar-01-05 07:49 PM   #20 
                    - About half of murders involve gang activity  slackmaster   Mar-02-05 09:12 AM   #22 
                       - And if there were not guns available to make teenagers more dangerous  applegrove   Mar-03-05 12:00 AM   #25 
  - Interesting Point  SoCalifer   Mar-01-05 03:22 AM   #3 
  - Accidental account for a very small percentage of shootings  slackmaster   Mar-01-05 09:45 AM   #4 
  - That sort of backs my main point.  InternalDialogue   Mar-01-05 10:20 AM   #5 
     - There is a consistency in their inconsistency  slackmaster   Mar-01-05 10:48 AM   #7 
        - I understand your point.  InternalDialogue   Mar-01-05 11:04 AM   #10 
        - But that is why they are being sued because they do promote the NRA  applegrove   Mar-01-05 03:48 PM   #12 
           - I oppose all unfair and baseless lawsuits  slackmaster   Mar-01-05 04:52 PM   #14 
              - There you go. So can Civic leaders in Watts not sue these companies?  applegrove   Mar-01-05 05:31 PM   #16 
                 - Funding the NRA is protected as free political speech  slackmaster   Mar-01-05 05:42 PM   #18 
                    - And they have lots of funding. I've noticed that when I casually mention  applegrove   Mar-01-05 08:25 PM   #21 
                       - Who is your remark directed toward?  slackmaster   Mar-02-05 09:15 AM   #23 
                          - I am getting old. I've seen the 'don't touch the gun company' debate take  applegrove   Mar-02-05 11:56 PM   #24 
                             - Guns are quite safe for the operator  slackmaster   Mar-03-05 09:10 AM   #26 
                                - They could be locked away in an other safe place by law - for the  applegrove   Mar-03-05 12:36 PM   #27 
                                   - Excellent rant  slackmaster   Mar-03-05 12:58 PM   #28 
                                      - Well if someone stole a car and rammed it into a schoolyard like  applegrove   Mar-03-05 05:15 PM   #29 
                                         - Here's one for you  slackmaster   Mar-03-05 05:35 PM   #30 
                                            - I meant pattern not battern - see I was sleepy !!! Yeah arrest me -  applegrove   Mar-03-05 10:38 PM   #31 
                                               - Bad stereotyping  slackmaster   Mar-04-05 10:18 AM   #32 
                                                  - I was kidding about the being a kid. Yes words are important.  applegrove   Mar-05-05 08:10 PM   #33 
                                                     - And the relevance of that tragic crime to this thread is...?  slackmaster   Mar-06-05 09:27 AM   #34 
                                                     - Are you saying it wouldn't be a nuissance suit? That is a good  applegrove   Mar-06-05 06:58 PM   #35 
                                                     - "...had to have come from the USA illegally...."?????????????  slackmaster   Mar-07-05 09:46 AM   #36 
                                                     - Right. And the shores of Nova Scotia are known for the tons and  applegrove   Mar-07-05 07:02 PM   #38 
                                                     - The H&K G3 was never available to US civilians  slackmaster   Mar-07-05 08:05 PM   #39 
                                                     - The plot thickens. It turns out that NRA was really popular in Alberta  applegrove   Mar-08-05 06:22 PM   #40 
                                                     - What kind of "assault rifle"? The type is relevant.  slackmaster   Mar-08-05 06:38 PM   #41 
                                                     - Which is why we woman hate the 'arms race' . Turns out this psychopath  applegrove   Mar-08-05 06:52 PM   #42 
                                                     - You still have not provided a shred of evidence the rifle came from here  slackmaster   Mar-08-05 07:01 PM   #43 
                                                     - I did not stereotype mid-westerners. I stereotyped criminals getting  applegrove   Mar-08-05 07:16 PM   #44 
                                                     - Let us know when you find out something relevant  slackmaster   Mar-08-05 07:23 PM   #45 
                                                     - Or from an arms race 'back in the day'. I just drove by  applegrove   Mar-08-05 07:27 PM   #46 
  - Yeah...  radar   Mar-01-05 04:08 PM   #13 
  - There is no hypocrisy on the issue of "Nuisance Lawsuits"  lostinacause   Mar-07-05 02:15 PM   #37 
 

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