The Sandy Hook and Remington settlement is bad news for gun makers, sets a horrible precedent, and is a total and complete case of misplaced blame by the Left.
Democrats and Progressives have tried to tie gun crimes to guns and gun makers for years and years. In this settlement, they have finally achieved their goal. Demonize the tool and not the criminal. In fact, they have gotten more successful in that direction as a whole.
The Left is decriminalizing all kinds of things that have been crimes in the past because they blame the “system” for failures. This is totally off topic for this post, but of course it isn’t the “system” that has failed – except that they keep making the “system” bigger so the blame could be placed directly in their lap again. Less government, less “system.”
Anyway, the settlement with the gun maker isn’t a solution. The blame should be placed squarely on the individual who committed the crime. The gun (and the gun maker) didn’t commit the crime. The gun is a tool, and when used incorrectly it obviously can have devastating and tragic consequences.
But let’s get realistic though. Are you going to blame a knife and knife maker for a mass stabbing? Are you going to blame a hammer and hammer maker for a mass bludgeoning? A car and car maker for someone who plows through a crowd of people?
You can’t blame the tool or the tool maker. The action comes from the person on the end of the tool causing tool to either fulfill it’s purpose or to misuse it from it’s purpose.
The person is the only person who can take the blame. The person provides the impetus, the motive, the intent, the action. Otherwise, the tool sits there – useless.
The Left needs to think about the true cause of the crime. It isn’t the tool. It’s the person wielding the tool. The heart of the person. The mind of the person. There is the true cause. Until they recognize this and actually do something about making a difference in people’s lives that ACTUALLY makes a difference, they are just addressing the symptom, not the cause.
Stop misplacing the blame and start addressing the heart and mind issues.
Piss and Moan 
I’m a Lefty, but I agree with you on this issue. However, what I can’t fathom is why anyone needs a gun (not a rifle) in this day and age. To me, a gun says the person is too aggressive towards others.
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It’s kinda strange that you would say “a gun says the person is too aggressive towards others.” It is safe to say that a vast majority of gun owners, regardless of the type, are law abiding citizens (at least when it comes to the firearm) that don’t use the gun in an aggressive way. Hell, I have a couple. One has only been fired enough to see that it worked (an antique) and one that has never been fired (modern). Gun doesn’t equate to aggression at all – unless you are a criminal.
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