As with any action by an individual there are always potential for liability when protecting oneself, including lawsuits by criminals damaged by stun guns and MACE. Mace can cause blindness and is why it has been banned in most states. The "W"rongful use of a gun in a 'stated' self defense issue doesn't always turn out the way the gun owner expects either. I refer to Bernard Goetz.
So, while the NRA, through the assistance of Tom Ridge wants to arm every person in America they aren't handing out personal liability policies along with their 'paid promotion.'
..."What we do know is that this was a deeply troubled young man -- and there were many warning signs," Bush said. "Our society continues to wrestle with the question of how to handle individuals whose mental health problems can make them a danger to themselves and to others."...
This is typical of the focus of Conservative Talkie anything.
From Anderson Cooper 360:
COOPER (voice-over): Today, we learned Seung-Hui Cho fired as many as many as 225 rounds of ammunition Monday morning. Law enforcement sources tell us he emptied at least 17 ammunition clips. And another source says most of his victims, survivors and dead, were shot at least three times. Also today, the first and only known connection between Cho and one of his targets. According to "The New York Times," classmates of Ross Alameddine said he sat next to Cho in an English class and tried on several occasions to reach out to him. As for the university's handling of the mentally ill student and its response to the shooting, Virginia's governor is appointing former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to lead the investigation.
What followed was a flowery inauguration of Tom Ridge as the Gun Related Violence King. However, I thought Tom Ridge was a Bush appointee to his commission. I thought the Virginia Governor had a separate commission that will no doubt highlight the reality of the lawsuit by Virginia Tech to prohit weapons on campus. The Bush/Tom Ridge commission never was stated to be bipartisan and will return with slanted statistics from societies already corrupted with laws that have never been enforced. From the beginning, in realizing the affiliation of Bush and Cheney to their cronies at the NRA, I don't believe anything they say and have no faith in any of their conclusions.
This is about Gun Regulation and why the laws that are passed at the insistance of the people of this country and nearly every state are never enforced. The killer was an established mentally unstable individual, yet, through either complete negligence and the need to 'turn profits' through illegal sales, the weapons found their way into the hands of people LEGISLATED not to have them.
