STUDENT ACTIVISTS LAUNCH “GUN INDUSTRY WATCH”

Alliance for Justice ^ | October 1, 2001 | Julie Bernstein

[LurkedLongEnough]

We've been watching with disgust the gun-grabbing activities of the so-called "Physicians for Social Responsibility". After reading about First Monday in previous FR posts, I signed up to be emailed whenever First Monday news was released. Above is the text that I, and probably some journalists, received in email today.

If you are interested in this topic, a good book to read is "PC, M.D." by Sally Satel, MD. It's captioned "How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine". Plus, do all you can to fight the "Alliance for Justice"'s misguided efforts.

[RasterMaster]

Actually, it is these "student ACTIVISTS" who should launch an EDUCATION INDUSTRY WATCH to eradicate Socialism and communism from subjects being taught to journalsism students.

[Phantom Lord]

I have long wondered... what is the "deceptive advertising" that the "gun industry" engages in. Can somebody help me out here.

[45Auto]

These people are idiots; the BATF book of regulations covers every aspect of the manufacture, distribution and sale of firearms and currently runs 360 pages. In addition to that, every state also has added regulations. Guns are the most regulated item of commerce in the US. If guns were treated as ordinary "consumer goods", they would be available freely. The consumer product laws cover unsafe or flawed manufacturing defects only, not deliberate misuse. If that were the case generally, no one would be able to buy an automobile. Almost every piece of machinery manufacturered could cause injury if the PEOPLE who own them acted in nefarious ways; that's the crux of the matter and that's why these morons can all go to hell. Their postion is that the gun manufacturers are somehow responsible for MISUSE of an otherwise non-defective product. The courts have nixed that idea all over the country. Furthermore, of the 30,000 people killed by gunfire in the US, they forgot to mention that 29,950 of those were involved in the drug trade.

[OWK]

WASHINGTON, DC – More than 150 campus and community events across the country today launched a campaign to force the gun industry to take responsibility for its deadly products.

I am seriously considering a campaign to force pointy-headed pseudo-intellectual leftists to take responsibility for their deadly product.

Authoritarian socialism.

[HadEnough]

Hey traitors, come WATCH THIS!

Pay particular attention to the MUZZLE area.

[hsmomx3]

Sounds good but they won't since they have been brainwashed since kindergarten.

[Mark]

Their agenda looks like a "cut & paste" from the anti tobacco groups.

[BossLady]

WOW! In these trying times...these students haven't a clue!

Watcha' gonna do when they come for you????

[lepton]

Glen Pearcy reveals how the gun industry and gun lobby work together to ensure that guns remain the least regulated and most lethal product sold in America.

Least regulated? How often do new guns catostrophically malfunction?

Hmmm perhaps they wear out too soon. Certain types certainly fail to fire every time until they are "broken in".

[mad_as_he$$]

Is anybody on this thread a lawyer?

I believe it is time to file a civil action against these groups for civil rights abuses against us.....oh yea and conspiracy with RICO throw in for good measure. Would that work?

[harpseal]

btt

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

"“Nearly thirty thousand Americans die every year from gun violence,” said Nan Aron, president of Alliance for Justice. “It’s time to demand the industry take responsibility for its deadly products."

I wonder where poor Nan gets his numbers? I get the 1999 numbers from the FBI and they come to 8,704. (Unless 9,000 is nearly 30,000 in his mind.) And really, that's less than 1 person out of 32,000 to be killed by a gun. Compared to pneumonia (1 out of 8,743), auto accidents (1 out of 6,598), and even falling (1 out of 21,333), guns are relatively safe. (Info from CDC )

[Joe Brower]

If the lefties choke at an M4, howzabout this?

Happiness is BELT-FED!

[First_Salute]

Toe nail clipper industry watch.

[First_Salute]

Unless you include:

rivet gun violence,

air gun violence,

caulking gun violence.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Not to mention the infamous imaginary gun violence statistics that only gun opponents know about and can quote.

[snopercod]

Notice how these collectivists slip in the concept of moral equivalence between the use of a firearm to protect one's life and property with the use of a firearm to violate the rights of another citizen?

They are the same crowd who claim that the use of force in defense of freedom is evil.

[coloradan]

A belt of Raufoss, too! When you care enough to send the very best ...

[Dan from Michigan]

They backed out here in East Lansing. I haven't heard of ANYTHING in the papers, nor at the Student Union Building where last years First Monday event was(25 people, 6 pro2a, less than 1/2 of the bad guys college students). I also haven't heard of anything in Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor, the other college areas having a First Monday event.

This is a bigger bust than the MMM events IMO. :)