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In reply to the discussion: Make Gun Companies Pay Blood Money [View all]BainsBane
(53,026 posts)90. Because they do everything to make sure criminals retain access to guns
by opposing extended background checks, by selling to illegal distributors and publicly saying they don't give a flying fuck.
Don't you get tired of carrying the water for a multi-billion dollar corporate industry? Amazing how the only people on this site so concerned with unfettered corporate profits are pro-gun folk.
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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