I was watching a stand up comedian the other night on Comedy Central who was talking about how Rosie O’Donnell had Tom Selleck on her show a while back, and how she started bashing him for being an NRA member. According to the comedian, she asked Selleck “don’t you know that guns kill people”, or something to that effect, I don’t recall exactly what was said. The comedian’s response to her statement was, “if you can blame guns for killing people, then I guess I can blame my pencil for misspelling a word.” Just think about that, and if you’re a liberal, you may want to go back and read that again.I think if there was only one thing I could change with the liberal philosophy, it would be for them to accept the idea of personal responsibility, and stop blaming others for their own personal mistakes. If you go back and think about that comedian’s quote, isn’t it true that when I spell the word “water” as “wattah”, I made the mistake. My keyboard, or my computer didn’t make any error, they did just what they were supposed to do. I typed a certain set of letters, and the keyboard told the computer that I wanted those letters displayed in a particular order on the screen. Should I sue the computer or keyboard manufacturer, because I made the mistake? No, of course not, that would just be ridiculous. Their product worked just fine.
So, back to Rosie’s comment about how guns kill people. Do you still buy it? Should gun manufacturers be sued because some jerk decided to pick up a gun and kill someone? Or is it that jerk’s fault that he made the decision to fire the gun? Remember, the gun has no hypnotic powers over someone forcing them to shoot at anyone, or anything. It is just a bunch of metal, whose sole purpose is to make another piece of metal travel from point A to point B. The person holding the gun has complete control over whether or not the gun will go off, and what point B will be. Unless of course there is a legitimate manufacturing flaw in the gun, in which case there may actually be a legit lawsuit.
Once we start legitimizing these junk lawsuits that place the blame on businesses for their customer’s mistakes, we’ll wind up having every business in America on trial for one thing or another. It already started with the lawsuits against the tobacco companies. People who started smoking years ago, back before it was determined that smoking was bad for you, sued the tobacco companies for “misleading” them. I don’t care when you started smoking, you should be able to use common sense to determine that inhaling smoke of any kind isn’t good for you. Why do you think people hold a cloth, or something to filter out smoke when they are caught in a fire? Common sense just tells you that smoke isn’t supposed to be in your lungs. But the anti-personal responsibility folks in this country decided that it’s best to award these idiots millions of dollars, for their incompetence, not the tobacco companies.
Since the tobacco lawsuits were won based on the argument that people were ignorant to the fact that smoking is a hazard to their health, I would be curious to see what argument the lawyers will come up with for the cases against the gun industry. Maybe it will be that there wasn’t a warning saying that if you point a gun at someone and pull the trigger, it may kill them. Oh, wait, every gun I’ve ever bought has had that warning come with it. So much for the ignorance plea. Looks like the lawyers are going to have to work overtime on this one.
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