Pirate's Cove

Remember, Democrats are not trying to grab all your guns. They aren’t trying to take away anyone’s 2nd Amendment Rights. They’re just trying to implement some common sense gun control, you guys. Or so they say, right up till they keep exposing their true agenda, which is to disarm all law abiding citizens

Our National Reckoning On Guns Hasn’t Included The Firearm Industry. It Should.

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While this movement has distinguished itself from previous calls for gun reform with its endurance, it has continued to focus on the NRA and the politicians and companies aligned with them. This campaign ― much like previous iterations ― has not emphasized the role of business leaders, like Debney and Chris Killoy, CEO of Sturm, Ruger & Co., the second largest U.S. firearms manufacturer in 2016.

“I really think that it’s important for companies to weigh in on this, or even for them to be called out because they are the people that are manufacturing it,” said Aly Sheehy, a Stoneman Douglas senior who is involved in the political action efforts and survived the Parkland shooting by hiding in the school auditorium. Still, she added, “right now our focus is more on the lawmakers and the power they have to change things.” (big snip)

Although gun manufacturers are subject to basic compliance inspections by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, they bear effectively no legal responsibility once products leave their warehouses. And with millions of their guns flooding onto the market each year, collateral damage is inevitable. (snip)

Collectively, gun buyers, dealers and manufacturers fuel a corporate machine whose very existence relies on the sale of more and more firearms. The overwhelming majority of these products are sold to law-abiding individuals, who use them as intended. But the sheer number of guns, as well as the weak national patchwork of laws intended to regulate them, has made epidemic levels of gun violence the norm. (snip)

And this is one of the particularly factious dynamics at the heart of gun politics. Those who support and profit off of firearms manufacturing are often insulated from the gun violence that is in many ways a natural byproduct of the industry. The Springfields of the U.S. end up paying for a gun policy set by its Hampdens. The Debneys and Killoys focus on putting more guns into a country already full of them, returning undisturbed to their well-appointed suburban homes.

Taken as a whole, what this is is a call for demonizing and attacking people and companies who make products that are legal under the law. The only thing missing in this screed is the call to make gun manufacturers legally liable when their product is used in a crime. You know, like we do when someone uses their car in a crime, we hold Honda, Toyota, Ford, etc liable. Oh, wait, we don’t.

One of the under the radar pushes by the gun grabbers is to find ways to drive gun manufacturers and sellers out of business, partly by making it so expensive to do business that they throw up their hands and close their doors. Because this isn’t about going after criminals for gun grabbers: it’s about disarming all the law abiding people.