Last week, President Bush created a significant exception to that principle when he signed the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,” a federal law that gives the gun industry a broad, nationwide immunity from legal responsibility for its actions. If the legislation survives constitutional challenges, gun makers and dealers will enjoy a level of protection from tort liability shared by no other industry.
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The statute generally bars claims brought against manufacturers, sellers, or trade associations concerning harm resulting from illegal misuse of a firearm or ammunition. In other words, if Beretta carelessly distributes a firearm in a way that makes it easy for a criminal to obtain it, Beretta will have no liability to the victims of murders, assaults, robberies, or other crimes committed with the gun.

Brought to you by a Republican Senate, House and President and a bunch of quisling democrats.

Now if some good citizen in Jesusland gets his ass blown away by some pissed off kid or deranged individual who just bought a truck full guns from the local gun dealer, don't come crying to me, they are getting exactly what they voted for.

Last week, President Bush created a significant exception to that principle when he signed the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,” a federal law that gives the gun industry a broad, nationwide immunity from legal responsibility for its actions. If the legislation survives constitutional challenges, gun makers and dealers will enjoy a level of protection from tort liability shared by no other industry.
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The statute generally bars claims brought against manufacturers, sellers, or trade associations concerning harm resulting from illegal misuse of a firearm or ammunition. In other words, if Beretta carelessly distributes a firearm in a way that makes it easy for a criminal to obtain it, Beretta will have no liability to the victims of murders, assaults, robberies, or other crimes committed with the gun.

Brought to you by a Republican Senate, House and President and a bunch of quisling democrats.

Now if some good citizen in Jesusland gets his ass blown away by some pissed off kid or deranged individual who just bought a truck full guns from the local gun dealer, don't come crying to me, they are getting exactly what they voted for.

It is my most sincere hope that all the people who got their asses shot are NRA members and Republicans who have spent the last thirty years preventing any sort of gun regulation.

It is my most sincere hope that all the people who got their asses shot are NRA members and Republicans who have spent the last thirty years preventing any sort of gun regulation.

Then again maybe he was just naturally crazy.

Then again maybe he was just naturally crazy.

No. Who's to say all of them — or more to the point, all of society, potential victims — is any more competent than the shooter this time? “An armed society is a polite society” is an incomplete picture. It's a tense and more-dangerous society as well.

A way to look at gun control logically is to view it the same way you would view WMD and delivery-system proliferation. Not only should the bad ones not have these things — they cannot be trusted and they are undeserving — but the more of them in the hands of the worse characters only increases the chances of disaster. (Would we want every Middle Eastern nation to be missile- and nuclear-armed? After destroying Israel they would be destroying each other, maybe even before attacking Israel.)

It's especially noteworthy to me here in the East, where I've lived for many years now (since 1998 — tenth anniversary is next month — remember the Chinese missile “tests” near Taiwan?). Do you remember discussions on and after 9/11? People either directly or through not more than two or three levels of indirection at least one or more persons who were killed that day where I was working at the time.