Gun manufacturers unfairly held liable

In a recent push by politicians and political activists around the country, a new federal law will require regulation for box-cutter knife manufactures and owners.

The Box-cutter Knife Responsibility (BKR) Act comes in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, in which box-cutter knives were used by terrorists to capture the airplanes that destroyed the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

"Sharp, pointy objects shouldn't be available to anyone." said Sen. Lieberman, D-Conn., a key figure in the knife-control movement. "I mean, really, how can we be sure that [box-cutter] knives aren't used for evil?"

Under the BKR, box-cutter purchasers must undergo psychological screening and buy a license.

Potential buyers will also have to wait a regulatory 15 days after purchase before they can pick up their utility knife.

The BKR also states that box-cutter manufactures will be held accountable if their knives are used in a crime.

The BKR Act's manufacturer accountability standards are almost identical to the Airplane Manufacturer Accountability (AMA) Act, which passed last month.

The AMA similarly requires airplane manufacturers to be held responsible in the event that their planes are used as weapons of terrorism.

"Everyone knows that box-cutters are daggers of death and that airplanes are giant missiles," Lieberman said in a press conference Tuesday. "The makers of these utensils of destruction need to be held liable for their actions."

If you haven't figured out by now that everything written above is completely made up, you should slap yourself heartily and move on to Jon Miller's column. He reports nothing but the facts.

I wrote this little parody to prove how absolutely absurd gun control regulations are.

Think about it, no one wants box-cutter knife regulation or tighter scrutiny on airplane manufacturers because we realize that it wasn't the fault of the objects used in the attacks that so many people died on Sept. 11.

We understand that it was criminals who committed the atrocities, not the weapons themselves.

Why is it then that so many people blame gun manufactures every time a gun-related crime is committed? And why does legislation get passed that does nothing but harass responsible, legal gun owners like myself?

Take for example a recent article titled "Letter is Crucial in Lawsuit on Liability of Gun Makers" (No, I didn't make this one up).

The article, pubished in The New York Times, tells how several California cities are attempting to sue a gun manufacture for not tracking where its guns go and who sells them.

According to the article, "The gun industry maintains a distribution system that allows many guns to fall into the hands of criminals and juveniles," and "Studies by the firearms bureau have shown that about 1 percent of dealers appear to be responsible for selling thousands of guns to criminals."

The article tries to prove the point that guns are obtained by criminals through legal channels and that some gun dealers need to be restricted on whom they sell their guns to.

Now have a closer look at what that quote actually says - it seems pretty clear that only1 percent of firearm dealers are selling guns to criminals.

The question needs to be asked: If only 1 percent of all gun dealers are selling guns to criminals, where do the criminals get their guns?

If a criminal wants to buy a gun, he's not going to buy one at the local Wal-Mart.

Check out the results of a 1997 survey of state prison inmates given by the U.S. Department of Justice. Among those questioned, only 12 percent got their guns from a "retail store or pawnshop," while 80 percent got their gun "from family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source."

Wow, it looks like gun dealers aren't the ones responsible for guns getting into the hands of criminals after all.

So, instead of passing ridiculous legislation that does nothing but hinder legal gun owners and responsible gun manufacturers, how about we go after the illegal gun trade? We can change a bad situation for the better and not seem quite so ridiculous in the process.

This author makes too much sense. He will never be listened to by the politicians. The stupidity of California gun laws demonstrates that the primary agenda is not safety, security,or protecting the innocent, but rather disarming the citizenry as a first step toward total government control and the overthrow of the Republic. Its not paranoia, its a rational conclusion based on facts.

One possible solution for gun manuafacturers.

Move all your businesses to Wyoming. Seriously. I understand Wyoming passed a law that if anyone sued a gun manufacturer in their state, the state attorney general would defend them. You take on the gun makers there, you take on the entire state.

I once wrote to a newspaper about banning youth football "for the children" because high-school football players die playing football every year. People actually thought I was serious.

People will now want box-cutter legislation and airplane legislation. They'll say the airplane manufacturers should know their products could be used in crime, so they're negligent for not preventing it. Liberals have no humor.

We'll soon see legislation requiring box cutters to do a DNA test every time the blade is extended so that it matches the background-checked and psychhologically-evaluated owner's DNA profile in it's ROM chip. The modest price change will only be from about $5 to approximately $1541 for one boxcutter and the required tests.

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