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Originally posted by Frank the Tank@Dec 22 2004, 05:00 PM
I'm not talking about gun control. I'm talking about a legal system that is so backwards that you can sue a company for making coffee hot, fast food joints for making people fat. We need to throw cases like this out before they even get started, but we don't, and we end up paying for it in the end. Thats all. Its too easy for people to say "its not my fault", when clearly, it is. I'm not talking about "the hood" or gangsters, I'm talking about stupid people in general.
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Well, Wal-Mart selling shotguns to suicidal people seem to bring this argument into the sphere of gun control, but I guess we don't agree on that. I'd suggest the problem lies in this girl gaining access to a gun. If Wal-Mart did everything required under current legislation, then maybe the legislation failed this girl and should be modified.
I also ask again, what's the difference between a handgun (apparently a common sense item) and an automatic weapon to you? Following your logic appears to give me license to a machine-gun. Are you p*ssed that you can't get one, or happy that legislation keeps those weapons off the street?
Interesting the sueing McDonalds comment, Supersize Me (which I assume many here have seen) is all about 2 girls suing McDonalds. That movie went a long way with me in debunking my 'freedom of choice' to eat/buy/do whatever I want. People are influenced by corporations nearly as much as their parents, if not moreso, depending on the corporation and parents.