Cool.

[unixronin]

With the specter of an assult-weapons-ban rider safely out of the way, the Senate is once again moving to ban liability lawsuits against firearms manufacturers for criminal use of legal and legally-sold products.  They've even bumped it up ahead of the defense appropriations bill.

Not surprisingly, Dianne Feinstein is incensed.  (Personally, I wouldn't weep in misery if she had a aneurysm over it.)

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

And just precisely what is that you've got in the icon, kind sir? Something that would cause Senator Hypocrite to have an aneurysm? :)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Probably. :) That's my [semi-auto] M14A1.

[bbullock.livejournal.com]

If they pass that law, they need to pass one allowing people to sue auto manufacturers when people are killed by those driving their vehicles.
Come on! Heads out of asses! Now!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Uh, either I'm misunderstanding you, or you have it backwards. The gun control lobby wants lawsuits of that kind, as a means to use litigation to drive the firearms industry out of business. The Senate (or a majority thereof) wants to ban them.

But yeah, you're quite right about cars ... and hand tools, and baseball bats, and woodworking tools. The framing for your house was oput up incorrectly? Sue the lumber company for selling the lumber. Your neighbor's kids egged your mailbox? Sue the dairy for selling the eggs.

It's completely absurd, but utterly par-for-the-course for the nanny-state bed-wetter set.

[bbullock.livejournal.com]

Presumably, you misunderstand me. My point is, it is just as stupid to allow people to sue a firearms company whose products are misused as it would be to allow someone to sue an auto company whose products are misused.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

OK, that's what I thought you meant. And in that, I entirely agree with you. Your wording just seemed a little confusing to me.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

feinsien can suck my ass till my head caves in! i've heard rumours that that hippo crit has a CCW!

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

ah the hipocrasy (sp?) of our elected officials! do as i say, not as i do!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Only rumors?

Here's the straight dirt. Dianne Feinstein used to have a California CCW, which she had had since at the very least the Harvey Milk murder. When she was Mayor of San Francisco, she clamped down on CCW permits; there were seven permits extant in the entire city and county of San Francisco -- and they were held by Dianne Feinstein and six of her closest cronies and biggest campaign supporters.

When she decided to run for the Senate on a gun-control platform, her CCW became a political embarrassment. So she held a big press conference at which she publicly turned in her CCW, and turned in "her gun" to be melted down. Only, it wasn't her gun; it was a very similar .38 revolver that she'd had San Francisco's Chief of Police -- whom she, of course, had appointed -- borrow from the SFPD evidence room for her. (I can only hope it was evidence from an already-closed case, but I doubt we'll ever know.)

Once elected Senator, practically the first thing she did was go around to the back door of the Jusatice Department and have herself appointed a deputy US Marshal. So now she gets to carry concealed WITHOUT a CCW, and she can even carry in airports and on flights.

And what's she carrying these days? Is it her .38 snubbie? Nope ... Dear Dianne carries one of those evil high-capacity semi-automatics (a 15-shot Beretta 92FS, to be specific) that she's so convinced the rest of us cannot be trusted with because they have no purpose other than to kill the maximum number of people in the shortest possible time.

So, Dianne, when did you sign up for the Future Mass Murderers Club of America...?