Benito had a hard time at the NRA debate last night, trying to explain why, as mayor of NYC, he sued gun manufacturers for being “accomplices” in NYC crime. His defense: He didn’t like the direction the lawsuit eventually went in. And oh yeah, there was lots of crime in the city. According to Benito’s logic it’s OK to sue gun manufacturers for the misuse of their products, or swimming pool manufacturers for drownings that occur, or baseball bat manufacturers, autombile manufacturers, silverware producers, or the makers of any other inanimate object that is ever used in a crime, as long as the lawsuit goes “in the right direction.”
F.A. Hayek wrote in The Constitution of Liberty that a defining characteristic of socialism is the denial of and attacks upon the principle of individual responsibiliy. (If you’re not responsible for your own actions, then the state supposedly must step in and run your life for you). In this case Benito Giuliani certainly fits the bill as an enemy of liberty and personal responsibility. Any gun owner who votes for him is a damned fool.
9:19 am on September 22, 2007
