Firearms industry should bear financial liability for homicides involving handguns?

According to George Nation, a law professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, they should.

The professor offers no opinion on whether:

• Auto makers should be liable for car accidents
• Weathermen should be liable for flood damages
• Law professors should be liable for frivolous lawsuits.

Personally, I'm willing to print him out a dozen or so "Owner Unarmed - Pleaser Don't Rob Me" signs he can put in the the windows of his home, car, or tape to his shirt.  Then he can be responsible for (and liable for) his own damn safety.

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Firearms industry should bear financial liability for homicides involving handguns

Norfolk and visitor with a holstered .45 are tangled in a Catch-22

From the Virginian-Pilot - a man attending a street fair in Norfolk were harassed by police for open-carrying.  When asked to disarm or leave, he protested saying there was a problem, whereupon he was arrested.  The DA declined to file charges, but the man is looking at a harassment case against the police.

Lesson?  Know your rights and stick to them, despite what the "authorities" tell you.

ARTICLE: Norfolk and visitor with a holstered .45 are tangled in a Catch-22 (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)

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Interesting Wall Street Journal OpEd

Very interesting opinion, one I agree with completely.  While I've tried to ignore everything I could about the Virginia Tech story, this one crept in - glad it did.  I was tired of ignoring all the other media bullshit about it.

Link to OpinionJournal - Featured Article

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Court overturns D.C. handgun ban - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

This is good news indeed, although there's a catch at the bottom of the article - I'll admit, I hadn't thought of this aspect of gun registration, but there it is:

...gun registration to provide the government with information about how many people would be armed if militia service was required...

Of course, militia service will never be required - as long as the government can instate a draft and provide guns to their conscriptees, armed citizens will never be called up.  Too bad - that's the way it should happen.  Wish I trusted my government enough to register a firearm with them.

Link to Court overturns D.C. handgun ban - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

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