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on 07/14/2005 at 05:21 AM
Everyone should pray that the “protection of lawful commerce” bill passes in congress - that’s the law that would protect gun manufacterers from frivolous lawsuits against them when their product is used in the commision of a crime. The precedent that would be set is indeed chilling.
Using the same logic, anybody could a company if that company’s product was used in the commision of a crime.
Definitely, Sod’em Insane was harboring and supporting terrorists. And training them.
The “training camp” found at Salman Pak wasn’t for training Boy Scouts how to preform search and rescue duty, its main purpose was training terrorists, and specialized in “unarmed” airplane hijacking (using box cutters instead of guns) and even had a Boeing 737 carcass in which the baboons could “practice” their eviltradewitchcraft.He doesn’t deserve a fair trial, perhaps an “auto de fe” procedure from the Spanish Inquisition would be far more appropriate. It may be too late to nuke Baghdad back to the Permian era, but Riyadh, Medina, Mecca, Tehran, etc are still standing - and waiting…
LC RP
the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, is one of a handful of bills where the GOP’s net gain of four—the party now holds 55 Senate seats—could spell the difference between last Congress’ defeat of gun legislation and a victory this year
“Republicans in the Senate” is like:
“Liberal Think Tank”
“Legal Ethics”
“Politically Correct”I will not hold my breath waiting for this to pass the Senate.
It would be nice if the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act could pass without idiotic riders getting tacked on. That’s what happened last year and it got shot down. IIRC somewhat similar laws were recently passed protecting the fast food industry; you can’t sue McD’s because the coffee is hot. Duh. It’s a shame we seem to NEED common sense laws, but we may be better off having them than not.
Hey, you ran over my dog! I’m suing Chrysler! Gee, that makes sense. KNOT.
The Ohio chapter of StinKerr calls on the ACLU to sit down and STFU.
Only 4000 terrorists? Or was that the just classes in progress?
It makes no sense to sue manufacturers for people’s misuse of any product they manufacture. Maytag is not responsible for me dropping a washing machine from the roof of a building into a crowd waiting at a bus stop. Really!
Bic, however, should be held responsible if I stick one of their pens into the eye of an ACLU lawyer. They’re French, after all,
‘em! 
I think you can chose not to swear on a bible and affirm instead, Revandryn. Not sure that it applies everywhere but it is provided for in the Constitution for oath taking. You’ll note that when witnesses are sworn in for Congressional hearings they only raise their right hand and swear (or affirm) to tell the truth. No bible involved.
