October 20, 2005
Right to Own Weapons...
Correction... this is a great day for litigation reform!
AP and all the nets are reporting a fantastic breakthrough -- in something that should have been a no-brainer. Congress has finally agreed that victims of criminal misuse of firearms cannot sue the gun manufacturer for damages (presumably for having the temerity to manufacture products that can potentially be misused). Bush is, of course, expected to sign the bill into law.
(In a startling corollary development, Congress also enacted legislation preventing victims of drunk drivers from suing Chevrolet and Toyota for building cars in the first place.)
The real intent is clear: unable to persuade American voters to vote to ban guns (perhaps due to that pesky Second Amendment), the Left decided to try to sue them out of existence by legally blaming gun manufacturers for the actions of criminals who buy, borrow, or steal guns to commit their crimes.
As A.E. Van Vogt wrote in "the Weapon Shops of Isher":
The right to own weapons is the right to be free.
Today, thankfully, America is the land of the freer.
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, October 20, 2005, at the time of 4:14 PM
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The following hissed in response by: RBMN
I better hurry up with my plan to sue the cable news networks for my high blood pressure. Tragedy, tragedy, tragedy ... it's not good for my health. What am I supposed to do ... just turn the TV off? :-)
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at October 20, 2005 8:06 PM
The following hissed in response by: OldeForce
Wasn't the Pentagon concerned that lawsuits could put US gunmakers out of business? Which would require the US to buy all military smallarms from foreign countries...
The above hissed in response by: OldeForce at October 20, 2005 8:14 PM
The following hissed in response by: SDN
A lady named Leslie Fish wrote a filk song based on "Weapon Shops of Isher".
The above hissed in response by: SDN at October 20, 2005 10:15 PM
The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh
SDN:
I'm sure Fish has written filksongs about everything.
Dafydd
The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at October 20, 2005 10:41 PM
The following hissed in response by: John Jorsett
This and the "no suing because McDonalds supposedly made you fat, you pig" fast food bill are fine, but why are we having to fix this kind of misuse of the legal system one industry at a time? The litigation Death Star will always find new worlds to annihilate, so how about we destroy it with something more comprehensive, like "loser [and his attorneys] pays" and much more restrictive rules about class actions?
The above hissed in response by: John Jorsett at October 21, 2005 10:56 AM
The following hissed in response by: RBMN
Dafydd,
A lady named Leslie Fish wrote a filk song based on "Weapon Shops of Isher".I'm sure Fish has written filksongs about everything.
See. This is how blogs start developing their own insider's jargon. Next come the acronyms. Eventually, a dictionary....
Filking -- citing interesting but irrelevant facts.
Filk Festival -- open thread
The above hissed in response by: RBMN at October 21, 2005 11:08 AM
The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh
RBMN:
This is how blogs start developing their own insider's jargon.
Hah, nothing to do with blogs and long predating the web. Or the internet. Or even personal computers! Probably even predating my birth.
The term "filksong" comes from science-fiction fandom, the science-fictional version of a folksong. Lee Gold writes that the term dates to the 1950s, where it first appeared as a typo in an article written by Lee Jacobs, "The Influence of Science Fiction on Modern American Filk Music."
To quote Lee Gold, the article was...
...about supposed science fiction incidents in folk song, which was a straight-faced analysis of a number of thoroughly filthy "dirty songs," taking various metaphors in them as if they were meant literally.
Being unwilling to waste a good tyop, SF fans seized upon the word "filk" and applied it to the growing body of SF- and fantasy-related songs, either with original tunes or simply new lyrics tacked onto existing tunes -- whether completely original or a parody of pre-existing music (as with "Oh What a Beautiful Martian).
Yes, jargon; but not invented by blogs, or bloggers, or having anything to do with computers.
Dafydd
The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at October 21, 2005 12:36 PM
The following hissed in response by: RBMN
Re: Dafydd ab Hugh at October 21, 2005 12:36 PM
I had no idea. But then, I've never cared about SF. Actually, the only SF novel that I ever liked was Martian Chronicles, I think. The rest I don't even remember. I only remember that friends who liked SF gave me books to read, and all the books just put me to sleep, along with movies like Alien, Star Trek, Star Wars, 2001, and anything else with the word "star" in it. Most boring stuff I can think of. You can ban me now, if you like. :-) I do like some of the old Twilight Zone TV episodes though, so there may be hope for me.
The above hissed in response by: RBMN at October 21, 2005 2:29 PM
The following hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist
Right to Own Weapons...
My thumb is a weapon...my teeth and breath have drowned other humans in their own blood. i am an ex-convict with all rights restored, other than the right to own a firearm. Well, black-powder firearms are possible to own, but i want an AK-47, and ain't going to check out the so-called right to own a black-powder firearm. i have been in the Army and on a Police Department...most humans can't hit what they shoot at, even when they try. Sure, they can 'Kill' a building, but i can kill a building without a firearm and/or supporting fire.
A neighbor tried to shoot me back around 1988, because my dog killed his dog in my dog's pen, after his dog had dug under the pen whilst my chained dog watched his dog coming. The neighbor shot at me six times before i reached him, after the first shot...as in a total of seven shots. i was worried that the Police would charge me for possession of a firearm.
Zig and Zag...let him fire away until you reach him. Take his firearm. That is from a distance. When close, the methods change, especially when he points his firearm within arm's reach.
If a...nevermind. i don't need a firearm. i will take one when i do...
KårmiÇømmünîs†
The above hissed in response by: KarmiCommunist at October 21, 2005 5:43 PM
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