Beyond Robson is quickly becoming one of my favorite websites on the internet, due to entries like this one. Amazing that a site dedicated to Vancouver is able to touch on topics that affect everyone, not just Vancouverites.
From Beyond Robson, orginally posted at Daily Kos:
"If a company makes a product that is inappropriately used to illegally copy a movie, that company is liable. If a company makes a product that is inappropriately used to illegally kill a human, that company is not liable. What's the common logic holding these disparate concepts together? Massive corporate special interest money. Welcome to your government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations, where a pirated copy of "Hollywood Homicide" is bigger threat than an actual Hollywood homicide."
The last comment about Hollywood Homicide is especially effective, and quite true in the context it is being used. Now, obviously, killing someone will earn you more jail time than pirating a movie. However, it does force you to really think about how influention corporations are in politics.
I also find it quite offensive, that the same government that decides it is a company like Napster, Morpheus, Kazaa, or whomever must restrict their software because other people are using their product to commit illegal acts, while a gun manufacturer is innocent of the exact same crime. A gun manufacturer is not held accountable in any way when someone using their products commits an illegal act.
I mean, I am 150% sure that this is not just a gun manufacturer-piracy issue, and it is quite a bit deeper than that. I just really wanted to touch on the subject.
Guns suck.
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