Gun Control: Say What you Mean.

[Brian37]

The gun Manufactures are like the Porky Pig cartoon where Daffy sells him a futuristic automated home button panel. Every time something went wrong Daffy was there to sell him something else to solve his problems only to create another.

"WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T PRESS THE RED BUTTON"

Porky presses it, turns out to be the "Tidal Wave" button which raises the house.

Daffy flies up to the porch now high in the atmosphere in a chopper and extends his hand out with a blue button in his hand "For another 50 bucks I can install this to get you down".

Good metaphor, but it's not just the gun industry that does that. Every corporation out there is like that, not just gun manufacturers. McDonalds and other fast food companies don't hesitate to try to get us to eat their food every day three times a day regardless of what health impact it has on us. Video game companies want us to be addicted to their games, no matter what damage it does to our personal lives. Fossil fuel companies have been going out of their way to prevent green technology from becoming a viable alternative even though prices are going through the roof and there's environmental damage being done.

But I don't really blame the corporations, either. Evolution has impacted the corporate world and the companies that survive and thrive are the companies that are best suited to the current environment. Our current environment favors companies with a single vision of making money regardless of who gets hurt. If a company actually has ethics, you see them getting bought out or simply destroye by a bigger multi-national giant.

Right. It used to be that a business would provide you with quality and good service and something long lasting, even if cheap. But Windows alone is a good example of "Why make it good, if we make it good, they wont need more".