This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1481064
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1481064
They are a rotten bunch of bastards, aren’t they?
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Those guns don’t just go to Mexico, by the way. Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, Columbia, and Nicaragua come to mind.
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Brilliant. Ruin them all.
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When stupidity is outlawed, only outlaws will be stupid.
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I wonder, if Mexico wins this case, is it possible to take the next step and sue the officers of these companies personally? Wouldn’t the CEOs of these companies be personally liable for the criminal activities that occurred under their watch, with their approval? I mean, if we’re going to bury these motherfuckers, let’s really bury them to the point where no one wants to go anywhere near manufacturing or selling one of these weapons.
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I have a great sadness when I think back on the good times I and many others had spent time plinking.
Plinking is just shooting paper targets and tin cans for fun not for preparing to take over our Government.
Safety and respect was taught and it was relaxing and fun.
So sorry those days are gone.
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Mexico can use the proceeds to pay for the wall. 
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Successful litigation will be much more effective than a wall.
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The idiots who think they’re going to beat the US military in a skirmish are ignorant fools who’ve spent way too much time wanking off to Red Dawn. But it’s not just stupidity and an inflated sense of their own importance, but religion that’s the problem. It requires people to believe things that are neither true nor possible, which infects their minds with all kinds of stupid ideas. That said, I really do wish they’d try something so we can be done with this mass delusion once and for all.
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“And Mexico alleges that manufacturers distribute their products to dealers whom they know serve as transit points for illegal gunrunning through illegal straw sales, unlicensed sales at gun shows and online, and off-book sales disguised as inventory theft.”
That is, the manufacturers distribute their weapons by fraudulent means to mobsters. But ghee, what’s a little light fraud between neighbors?
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The last time I went plinking I set up a backstop to catch the lead .22 slugs, and was shooting different brands to find out what my rifle shot best. Some high-power bullets flying by just overhead ended the session. At one time we had an actual range to use safely that was closed down for a new +residential development nearby. I sold my guns on a 20% commission at a local gun shop and still ended up getting more than I paid for them.
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Any means that could possibly stifle the unbridled murder gravey train is welcome…the industry has the resources and purchased stooges to take their defense a long way…let’s hope it’s an expensive bumpy ride…
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What a crock! Next they’ll sue the auto makers when some drunk hits, and kills someone. No one will win in this ridiculous lawsuit except the snake oil selling lawyers. Sad!
Considering what heavily-armed organized crime costs the mexican government, they can spend way more on lawyers than the gun industry.
But in the long term I wonder what happens next. In a bankruptcy someone buys the assets, including the patents and the factories and all those bits. The trick will be insuring that the next owner behave in less lethally-criminal ways. (And there’s some hope for that if the assets get acquired at fire-sale prices, because you don’t need enormous, constantly-growing sales if you didn’t borrow a pile of money to buy the company at an outsize valuation.)
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Stupid analogy. A gun is specifically designed for the purpose of ripping human bodies to pieces. And automobile is not. But nice try troll.
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You’re right. That’s why the company officers responsible need to be personally sued into bankruptcy, so no one gets the bright idea of just reviving the same weapons under a new company name.
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Wasn’t there a TV documentary a few years ago, when the networks still did meaningful documentaries, about a gun store in south Texas that was the transit point for thousands of guns to Mexico? That story documented how all this shit works on a day to day basis. Of course, nothing came of the story because the manufacturers didn’t want any stop in the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico.
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I know you think you are right, but you are wrong. Nobody is talking about banning guns in America, what this story is talking about is the government of Mexico banning guns from getting into the hands of cartels and Mexican rapists and murderers, you know the people Trump says are always crossing the border. You will be able to beat off to the next AR 15 switch you buy all you want.
Of course, banning military style guns in America is not a necessarily a bad idea. If the Missouri legislature had banned possession of high capacity handguns by kids, KC’s parade might not have ended with the death of a local DJ and the shooting of 21 other people because 2 irresponsible teenagers had to throw down on each other.
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Guns are a sacred necessity in free America.
America must have its Holy munitions.
Muntions makers will always be with us
making money on war
making money on kids shooting kids
at a Super Bowl parade of champions.
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