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Originally Posted by Yanks_Todd
I don't believe you can compare alcohol to guns. You just can't, they are two different animals. The CEO of Absolut does not send out a bottle of Vodka with the intention that if that one single bottle is used correctly with complimentary products someone will die. The collective manufactures of an AR-15, hollow point round and 100rd clip send those products out knowing that if their products are combined and used correctly someone will die. And in the U.S. more then likely that person is not a criminal.
At the end of the day, I have two gun control issues that I believe need to be enforced better and you share one of those. I don't shoot guns and based on what you have said your certainly not the problem. So I think we need to agree to disagree.
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Fair enough, but that is a cop out IMHO. We can learn from prohibition and alcohol when discussing gun regulations. But don't even think that an alcohol company executive or tobacco executive is any more less culpable than a gun manufacturer. At the end of the day, alcohol and tobacco executives market and distribute products that are designed to hurt people, and they know they kill people in spades. But people don't want to talk about it because, "hey everyone is doing it." That is why you can kill someone while driving drunk and not see more than 5 years in prison (or no prison at all). Why? Because lawmakers, judges, jurors, politicians, soccer moms, etc. drink, and many of them drink irresponsibly. But the aforementioned folks may not shoot guns, so it is very easy for them to regulate and talk "bans" because it doesn't impact "their hobbies." Straight up hypocricy (sp) in its purest form.