Gun Manufacturers' Feel Guilty About Newtown? Yeah, right!
I'm sure it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone but I was truly shocked when I read yesterday in The New York Times' that gun manufacturers feel no responsibility, just complete indifference and resistance to the idea that any tracing of guns used by criminals -- or remorse -- might have prevented the recent killings at Newtown and other mass shootings. In fact, many of them were downright self-righteous, with the old "guns don't kill people, people kill people" mantra. I'm not sure I'd be so holier-than-thou if I had the deaths of 20 elementary school students on my watch. As Mike McIntyre and Michael Luo reported, the attitude of most sellers of guns is who, me? "The president of Sturm, Ruger was not interested in knowing how often the police traced guns back to the company’s distributors, saying it 'wouldn’t show us anything," the writers related. And certainly a large swath of the public agrees. Profit at the company s...