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Originally posted by 4X4@Dec 25 2004, 06:37 PM
As for you amagamon, you need to wake up & realize that consciousness is a responsibility. Relating advertising to eating fast food does not compare to poor parenting/crappy neighbourhoods leading to a hoodlum lifestyle.
This is a frivolous lawsuit. This lawsuit is a thinly veiled attemt to capitalize on a tragic situation. Money won't bring her daughter back. Pay for the funeral maybe, but that isn't WalMart's responsibility, or the government's responsibility.
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I was basically arguing that guns shouldn't be sold at Wal-Mart, as a gun-control issue. If you think its cool to sell handguns/shotguns/rifles at Wal-Mart, power to you, there's a big lobby in favour of that. I think its the governments responsibility to create legislation to make it a lot more difficult to obtain firearms. We've all seen instances where they can be easily purchased at gun shows.
The lawsuit may be frivilous, just as the one in Super-size me (above example) against McDonalds may be. We differ on where the responsibility lies, with the girls parents for not watching her every move, or Wal-Mart (condoned by the government) for selling her the gun. I don't really care which side of the fence you fall on, its an old argument.