bearingarms.com By Tom Knighton
If someone buys a car with the intention to use it as a getaway vehicle in an armed robbery, is Toyota or Ford responsible for that misuse?
Obviously not.
While companies are responsible for their products hurting consumers–namely their own customers, but not exclusively so–they’re not responsible for people being stupid, evil, or somewhere in between. What’s more, if you ask people, the vast majority will agree that it’s not their fault.
Yet gun companies don’t get the same benefit of the doubt.
An op-ed at the Chicago Sun-Times tries to make the case that they are, and it’s time to disabuse people of that notion.
Do corporations have a responsibility to society if their products are being misused and causing extreme harm? We have faced this question before. In 1965, activist Ralph Nader wrote a book critiquing the auto industry’s safety record. In response, Congress passed a law that led to major improvements in car safety.
Today, the same question arises regarding the gun industry. Gun manufacturer Glock produces a popular handgun that is easily converted to an illegal automatic weapon capable of firing up to 1,200 bullets per minute. Police in Chicago and elsewhere are seeing more and more of these guns in our streets, churches, parades, grocery stores, streets, homes, essentially everywhere.
Except it’s not the same question. Not even remotely.
Nader exposed how car companies were building vehicles that injured consumers. They were making products that were unsafe for the user…
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