Next time someone mentions gun rights

[rightsideout]

77. Here's a thought(s)

I agree with your idea. I'm no law professor, but according to the law

"The purpose of the act is to prevent firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable for crimes committed with their products."

Is leaving a gun out for children to play with a crime? I guess the State could say the adults in the home were negligent then the responsibility is on them. It's not the manufacturers fault the gun was left out.

If the gun didn't have a safety or was defective you could sue for that. The color probably wouldn't qualify as defect.

There doesn't appear to be a creative way to get the gun manufacturers to be held legally accountable. The NRA pretty much has the manufacturers interests covered with the law.

Guns are consumer products. Baby carriages, cribs, strollers and car seats are recalled because of dangers to children even if no kids are killed and it's one or two injuries. It's enough to shut a whole line down and taken off the shelves.

But again this gun appeared to work as it was intended.

I had an idea that since guns are consumer products and over 1 million people have been killed and probably millions more injured in the US since 1968, as a consumer product they are unsafe and should be recalled but that idea would never fly. It would be proven in court over and over the deaths resulted because the gun wasn't used safely.

Most guns deaths are suicides. Obviously, in those cases the gun isn't used for protection as it was intended. But that's the same as using a consumer product like pills to kill yourself.

I don't know. Not much you can do to hold the gun makers accountable.

You could try an angle similar to second hand smoke from cigarettes. People are killed from errant "second hand" bullets. It's a public safety concern like second hand smoke is. Ban them from public areas. Of course the criminals won't listen to that but that's where you use law enforcement to go after gangs and the black market and you do gun buyback programs.

The other angle is some doctors are saying gun deaths are an epidemic. That's another public safety concern. Quaranteen the guns.

The gun fanatics have the 2A to keep their guns with the NRA to be on their side. There's got to be creative ways for us anti-gun people to avoid being the next victim when these gun fanatics become unhinged and I don't mean arming ourselves with even more guns.

And yes, I've fired many guns over the years at various rifle ranges, recently in December with my son and his scout troop (I went unwillingly and had to pretend to have fun) but I personally don't own one and would never keep one in the house for protection. I refuse to be caught up in protection paranoia and the whole macho man aspect of it. Swaggering around like Yosemite Sam in this day and age is loony. I can live without guns. They've been responsible for too many deaths and injuries.

When you have a government amendment in which more people die from guns than actually die from a property owner standing their ground or when you have more people killed in peacetime than in all the wars the US has been in, combined, the 2A has backfired on it's own citizens. The collateral damage of the 2A isn't worth it and is a failure in terms of human lives lost. The founding fathers weren't perfect. I don't care how many quotes you come up with from politicians that have been dead for 200 years. They aren't alive now to see the carnage.

It's like sending 4000 people off to die in a War against Iraq to avenge the death of 3,000 people. It's stupid killing more people than you save and that's what the 2A does. It's a failed government policy or whatever you call it. Yea George Mason. I'm trashing your Second Amendment.