It’s time to repeal the gun industry’s exceptional legal immunity

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29. If people started a concerted campaign to sue brewers out of existence

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then there would be a special law for alcohol.

Gun control organizations overreached and this law was the result. They need to give up the notion that you can sue a company for the criminal use of their products by a third party despite the fact that they obeyed all state and federal law regarding the manufacturer, marketing and sales of a legal product. It is as simple as that.

According to the CDC, alcohol is a common factor in suicides:

Alcohol has long been known to play a role in suicides, but there have been little data regarding which victims use it and how often. Now the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in a large sample of suicide victims whose blood alcohol levels were measured post mortem, one in four had been legally drunk, with a blood alcohol content at or above the federal standard of 0.08, or 8 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood.

Younger adults and men were more likely than women or older people to have been drunk, the study found. Some 28 percent of adults ages 20 to 49 were intoxicated when they committed suicide, and 25 percent of men were intoxicated, compared to 18 percent of women.

Other experts suggested alcohol may play an even more prominent role in suicide in some regions than the study suggests. Dr. Philip A. May, professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, said alcohol plays a role in about 40 percent of suicides in New Mexico.

“The younger the individual, no matter what ethnic group, the more impulsive the suicide is, and the more impulsive the suicide is, the more likely alcohol is a major factor or trigger,” Dr. May said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/health/19suicide.html?_r=0

Alcohol is implicated in violent crime, rape, domestic violence, premature death, child abuse and deadly accidents. Your attempts to hand wave it away are interesting. I can tell you one thing - where I live, alcohol kills many more people than guns do. I suspect the same is true where you live.