Now my power company is a monopoly - at least to me. I don’t have choices as to which I use and that makes it a monopoly as far as I am concerned.
Or the Federal Reserve Bank. And, yes, it is a private company, not a federal government agency. It determines what our money is worth and I don’t have a choice in the matter since it works directly with the Feds.
I smoke and I do blame tobacco companies for not telling the truth when I began smoking. But I have kept smoking since the companies were first forced to put warnings on the labels (how long ago was that? I think in the late 50’s or early 60’s - sorry, no time to look it up). After that, liability to me ended. To determine otherwise is just a means for government to get additional money from smokers.
Forget the tobacco companies being punished. It just ain’t so since they just add on to the price to pay any penalties.
The whole thing between government and the tobacco companies was just a ploy to make people think certain government people were do-gooders when the reality is that both the tobacco companies and their cohort congressmen are just bringing in more for themselves.
The reality is the price is paid by people like me who are hooked. We don’t get a cent of the money gathered in by government since the price of cigarettes has doubled and still rising by the 'action' against the tobacco companies. The 'punishment' the tobacco companies has got to be a case of being stark-raving madness, also.
Besides, the tobacco companies as a whole are monopolies. I am not free to grow my own tobacco nor to compete against them. The government prohibits this - illegally, of course, but most of what government now does is illegal.
And, now, lawsuits against gun companies. Something like 28 pending or some such madness. Good God, if the courts, like the so-called judge in the MS case, decide gun companies are responsible for acts carried out by crazed criminals and people who have went crazy for their own twisted reasons, where does it stop?
What about all the deaths by stabbing? Are knife companies next? Or tire tool beating? Or those who have had the living crap beat out of them with chains? Or surgical glove makers since those have been used in the commission of many crimes?
Or auto manufacturers since some type of vehicle is used in commission of many crimes, including murder? And so on until some manufacturer is blamed for every incident of a crime against another by some other person?
Get real. Put the blame where it belongs - on the individual perpetrating the crime, not the manufacturer of whatever is used to commit the crime. It wasn’t his family’s fault, or society’s, or the manufacturer of, say, a handgun.
Oh, no, the fault was his and his alone as we all have the freedom of choice as to right and wrong. If not, then it means incapacitation to determine right and wrong was at fault and this also removes the blame from the manufacturer of any tools used in the commission of any crime or other act against society.
Besides, our government simply wants control of firearms since it would enable them to proceed with complete domination over the people of this nation and allowing such lawsuits against gun companies is just a means of helping them do so.
And, to determine otherwise is just an indication that society, including judges and government, have gone stark-raving mad. And I suspect I will need my firearms to protect myself against such a monster.
But, of course, then I would be accused of being stark-raving mad. As well I might be by then.