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To: James1000 who wrote ()12/8/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: James1000  Read Replies (2) of 247
 
I was very surprised to learn that the government is now trying to reduce crime by hiring more lawyers. They are trying to sue and possibly shut down the ring of fire gun factories(the cheap class of gun manufacturers in CA) and other small factories. They accuse them of targeting their advertising to criminals and selling defective products.

I don't think they should try to band the defective product producing companies with "bad" advertising companies as one evil force. Obviously these are two totally different issues.

This is just another victory for the lawyers. I just hope that the courts don't expect software companies to pay Y2K bug bills or lawyers will be making twice as much as programmers next year.

On the other hand, I didn't see or hear any of the advertising, mostly because the only time I ever see advertising for them is in Popular Mechanics magazine.

My guess is making guns illegal would just result in the people who don't care about the law to have all the guns.

In this case though, the government is using the "poor people tend to be criminals" idea so just make guns to expensive for the poor. If they knew what they were doing, instead of hiring teams of lawyers they could accomplish the same thing by putting a $100 tax on gun sales.

On the other hand, it wouldn't be doing something so silly in the first place if it knew what it was doing.

abcnews.go.com
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