A discussion of Gun Control for schrafinator

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Making a product that is low in cost because of unsafe and faulty design is bad, and that is what these companies are being allowed to do.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------I agree that certain quality control measures in the manufacturing process would be a good thing. Anything that does not interfere with the individual right to own and use a firearm is fine.quote:
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The idea is that if US gun manufacturers were required to meet quality and safety standards, just like the manufacturers of teddy bears and swing sets, several very profitable guns wouldn't be quite as popular with the criminals because they would be too expensive.
------------------------------------------------------------------------Well, I agree with your argument but not your conclusion. I am for making guns safer, but not just to drive up the cost (though it certainly would) so hopefully criminals couldn't buy them. There are ways to make society safer that do not take away the rights of the citizens.quote:
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PS. I haven't been in a walmart in over 10 years. Walmart represents so many of the things that are wrong with America today. Walmart puts entire blocks of privately owned shops out of business in the towns it enters, thus taking money out of the community and filling the corporate coffers elsewhere, it is a major part of the homogenization of American culture, it treats it's workers like s***, it treats it's domestic suppliers like s***, it promotes the exportation of manufacturing jobs overseas, etc. ...but that is for another thread.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------The price of convience is high indeed. But I do commend you for sticking to your principles.quote:
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Then why has the gun lobby resisted every single effort to do so?
------------------------------------------------------------------------Because they know that this is more of a launching point for the antis who want stricter gun control overall than out of merely wanting safer guns and nothing more. Our freedom to own guns has been attacked everywhere from the individual to the manufacturor (I'm not talking quality control here). It isn't smashed all together, but slowly chipped away a little bit at a time. So in this particular case the gun lobby is wrong. There is no reason that a gun should not be able to withstand a drop test, but they have been so use to having small things taken away one at a time that it is probably more of just a "they are for it so we HAVE to be against it" kind of thing.quote:
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I don't mind if you have a musket. You can have all of the muskets you want. I'll even let you have a dueling pistol.
----------------------------------------------------------------------I can duel with my Glock. I promise to only load one bullet at a time.