Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Encouraged by the recent success of states suing tobacco companies for the medical expenses caused by their product, cities nationwide including Chicago, Miami, New Orleans and Atlanta have filed suits against gun manufactures, trying to hold them accountable for the damage guns have done to their respective communities. In a rather predictable response, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has released its political hounds, engaging in a nationwide effort to lobby state legislatures to write laws blocking or preempting litigation...
...recent onslaught of anti-tobacco and anti-gun litigation offers an enticing bandwagon. However tempting any opportunity to finally strike a slow to the hitherto elusive tobacco companies and gun manufacturers may be, the policy of circumventing on augmenting legislature through judicial action sets a policy neither America nor policy neither America nor any legislative democracy can afford...
Lawsuits that essentially punish tobacco companies for selling cigarettes and gun manufacturers for selling guns violate this balance. The movement to litigation stems from frustration with an inability to expand current tobacco and gun control legislation. The current suits represent a blatant attempt to circumvent proper legislative procedure...
...decision against the gun companies would hold that in selling guns that ultimately end up being used in murders, gun manufacturers violate a written law and can thus be held responsible for the murders in which the guns are used. However, on both a federal and state level, legislatures have explicitly legalized both the sale of tobacco products and firearms, outlining in law which guns and tobacco products can and cannot be sold...
...police that they feel they have no choice but to take matters of personal defense into their own hands," says Anderson. "Instead of relying on the police to protect them, they let other people know that they can defend themselves with overwhelming force, which these days means having a gun and being willing to use it." The inflated sense of confidence that packing a gun engenders, especially in young men, can easily escalate a petty argument into a fatal confrontation. Step on somebody's shoes, and you could wind up dead...