Op-Ed Claims ‘Gun Manufacturers’ Are Killing Their Customers

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File

Perhaps the most annoying part of the anti-gun narrative is the claim that gun manufacturers who rarely sell directly to any customers are somehow responsible for how their guns are used. It’s something that doesn’t exist in any other industry you care to name. No one blames Ford or Toyota for DUI fatalities. No one blamed Ryder for the Oklahoma City attack.

So when an op-ed claimed that gun companies were “killing their best customers,” I had to take notice [emphasis mine]:

Death-by-gun is a public health crisis in America. I have been saying it for years, but only because of the overwhelming evidence.

The mass shooting problem in our country is obvious and internationally unique. There is no escaping it for any meaningful amount of time. We no longer have time to do much healing between them anymore. Virginia Beach is this week’s reminder. Twelve innocent people, mostly city employees, were gunned down by another last week for no immediately apparent reason.

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We should want to know all we can about every other type of gun death suffered by our country men and women too.

Now, before all of the usual objectors start crafting their rage-responses to my …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms