Posted on 07/29/2005 10:54:11 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Dear Violence Policy Center Action Network Member:
The U.S. Senate will vote TODAY on legislation to shield the gun industry from some civil liability (S. 397). This would make the firearms industry, which is already exempt from federal health and safety regulation, the most protected consumer product manufacturer in America.
Please call your Senators TODAY and urge them to vote YES on the Reed Substitute to S. 397! (Background information on the Reed substitute is below.)
Call your Senators through the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121, or look up your Senators' contact information here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
THANK YOU!
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BACKGROUND
SUPPORT THE REED SUBSTITUTE TO S. 397
The Violence Policy Center (VPC) urges your support for the Reed substitute to S. 397. The Reed substitute will preserve lawsuits brought against the gun industry by individual plaintiffs. Individual suits have proved to be the most effective mechanism to hold the gun industry accountable when it acts in a negligent or reckless manner.
It is imperative that individuals retain the right to hold the industry accountable for its increasingly dangerous marketing techniques. Recent gun industry advertising has taken an abrupt militaristic turn that will inevitably help inspire mayhem. These tactics are similar to those employed in the 1980s and 1990s by many manufacturers including Intratec, an assault pistol manufacturer that promoted its guns to dealers as "weapons that are as tough as your toughest customers" and to consumers as being resistant to fingerprints. The California Supreme Court was forced to throw out a lawsuit challenging Intratec's marketing techniques as contributing to a mass murder in a San Francisco law firm because of a state statute similar to S. 397. Nevertheless, the lawsuit created a huge incentive for manufacturers to cease such dangerous marketing campaigns. The California legislature was so appalled by the outcome of the suit that it moved quickly to repeal the liability shield.
The Reed substitute will ensure that individuals harmed by the reckless or negligent conduct of the gun industry can have their day in court. The Reed substitute would also allow actions by cities or other governmental entities if the action is approved by the state legislature. Moreover, unlike S. 397 it is not retroactive, so that the few city actions that are still pending could proceed.
You betcha, I will get right on it.... I am the NRA
VPC's always good for firing up the gun owners.....
Ah....who or what is it, the gun?
VPC thinks manufacturing firearms is "negligent".
When are these idiots going to realize that its not the GUN that kills people, its the PEOPLE holding the gun that kills people!!!!
I will suggest to you that these idiots DO realize that guns don't kill people, but have a much more diabolical motive in mind at the core of their agenda.
This is just another strategy towards their overall goal of disarming private citizens.
Your days are numbered, you frigging commies. If this country ever has to fully mobilize against domestic terrorism, you'll be history.
If even one Citizen is unable to protect themselves, their families or their property because of your efforts to dis-arm America, the names of you and your ilk will be erased from history as ever having been members of the human race.
(I think that's all I'm allowed to say here.)
Have a good day.
Good Post!
What the heck is that trainwreck of verbiage?
Do they have a policy of violence?
Is this the policy center for violence?
Is it just directed at center-action?
Is this the center of their action network for their violence policy?
If their name's that confused, can their thinking be any less so?
Thank you. Somebody had to say it. Our country is changing rapidly. The VPC, et al, are putting us at risk.
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