Senate Bill Could Save Firearms Companies
Bitter Anti-Second Amendment Politicians like Senator Ed Kennedy have enjoyed damages to the firearms industry by frivolous lawsuits driving them out of business in the United States, only to open the market to foreign manufacturers such as Beretta of Italy. This necessary bill will rightfully shield firearms manufacturers from lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes, redirecting punishment back where it belongs, the criminal perpetrators.
“The 65-31 vote passed a bill that supporters said protects the industry from financial disaster and bankruptcy caused by damage lawsuits.”
“Democrats won inclusion this year of a new requirement that each handgun be sold with a separate child safety or locking device, unless purchased by government officials or police officers. Any violation could be punished by the suspension of a dealer’s license, a $10,000 fine, or both.”
The “bill does not block gun makers and dealers from facing product liability, negligence or breach of contract suits.”
The U.S. Military and Law Enforcement previously bought exclusively from domestic companies such as Colt Firearms Manufacturing of Hartford Conn., while today a great deal of firearms for government use come from foreign manufactures. Colt, along with other U.S. firearms companies, has gone bankrupt in the face of so many lawsuits and socialist restrictions. These financial strains have prevented domestic companies from not only being competitive, but also being financially viable.
Someone out there will always continue making firearms. Firearms will always be available to criminals. Anti-Second Amendment legislation and frivolous lawsuits only serve to drive U.S. companies out of business and take guns out of the hands of safe, law abiding citizens.
Firearm ownership is a basic Libertarian freedom and this bill is a small step in the right direction in restoring our constitutional rights.
July 30th, 2005 at 10:45 am
I am all for blaming the criminal and not the tool. Thats great.
However, these people are still jackasses. These are the same people that support going after P2P tools and holding them criminally responsible for the action of their users.
Why are gun makers getting off scott free while software companies are getting shut down?
July 30th, 2005 at 11:39 am
I’m not sure who your ‘jackasses’ are. Firearms manufacturers are businesses trying to make a profit in this so-called free market. Frivolous lawsuits in general hurt the free market and everyone’s liberties including the consumer.
Firearms manufactures will still be held accountable for defects or unsafe products just like anyone else. Moreover, if I killed you with a cookbook by bashing you over the head, should Betty Crocker then be sued?
The application of basic logic will help you to better understand this issue. No one gets off “scott free.” Criminals will be prosecuted and the free market protected.
Your analogy to P2P is not necessary to leverage your point because it doesn’t serve to do so. I am opposed to the targeting and prosecution of P2P tool developers and hosting providers by the government. The use of the law in this way does nothing for protection of a free market, and does a great deal to oppress people who have a right to experience art and culture, without regards to their financial limitations.
Thank you for posting feedback.
July 30th, 2005 at 1:58 pm
Lets look at Edward “Ted” Kennedy for a moment. He is very old and senile. When he was just a kid at Harvard he was kicked out for cheating. His dad pulled some strings and got his cheating [rear] back into Harvard a couple years later.
This guy obviously doesn’t believe in term limits. The stupid people of Massachusetts elected him to the Senate in 1962 and he still plagues us to this day, serving for over 42 years now. The idiots just keep electing him to office. He plans to keep running for office until the old bastard dies.
He has been involved in some of the most controversial issues and filthiest corruption in the Senate history, yet he has grown into the office like a fungus resistant to change and modern points of view.
Of all the damn Kennedy’s to survive, why did it have to be the worst?
July 30th, 2005 at 11:41 pm
The jackasses are the people in congress that are supporting this bill.
Not as you seemed to think I mean because this bill is wrong. I am all for this bill, its just sad that we even need it. But as we do, lets have it.
My point is, these people supporting the bill (the jackasses) are not supporting it because it is the right thing to do. They are simply supporting it because the NRA has a strong lobby. It has nothing to do with right or wrong, but rather who they owe a favor too.
These people in congress decide it is OK to hold software publishers responsible for the way people use their product, but it is not OK to hold gun makers to the same standard.
Yeh, that does not make this bill any less legit. It is still a good bill. However my point is these people that voted for it are still not good people, rather weak willed shills that know which side of the bread the butter is.
If these were good lawmakers, they would hold both to the same standard: Go after the criminal, not the person that makes the tool. Instead these lawmakers go for what the lobbyist ask for.
August 4th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
There are jackasses on all sides, which is the nature of The Beast. For each wrong corrected, in any arena, I am thankful. The restoration of freedom by any motivation leaves the people responsible open to criticism by those with opposite core ideology, even when the particular restored freedom itself is not the offending factor.
August 5th, 2005 at 10:18 am
Why the NRA isn’t part of the jackass group
Lobbies and money have power. Sure. But the great thing about the NRA is the money comes from ordinary citizens. They donate money so they have a voice. That voice says, “we want to keep our guns” so they pool the money together and buy lobbyists. You software people should form a group, pool your money and buy yourselves a voice too.
August 5th, 2005 at 10:22 pm
Sounds more like buying a vote.