That is right, if tort reform continues and we do not allow at least 15% of the national economy to be devoted to litigation, it will serve to encourage terrorism.
Without this necessary subsidy for poor starving lawyers, terrorists will be able to strike at America without fear of retaliation from America’s well-trained team of crack Plaintiff attorneys, who will immediately strike financial fear into the hearts of terrorist and immediately bring them to defeat.
Sorry, for the sarcasm, but I think the above characterization is as accurate and no less self-serving as some of the other terror-related concerns I have seen on here recently.
There may, in fact, be valid reasons for not allowing one-man crews–or tort reform for that mater–but terrorism is not one of them.
Hey Gabe the NARTC Meeting is in Coronado at the Del this year… Hear it is gonna be quite a bash on the beach. I can’t go due to a conflict, but I sure wish I could…
Or pass a law requiring all states to recognize state issued concealed carry permits as a meaning of “RIGHT to keep and BEAR ARMS” in the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution.
That way, if you’re lawfully armed, you can protect yourself anywhere. And everyone can get their own heat…[:)]
And nobody feed any BS here, the crime rates in concealed carry states/towns is far lower than where citizens are disarmed and there-by turned into helpless victims.
I am embarrased to admit I do not know what NARTC stands for, and Google was uncharacteristically not helpful. But, I am always up for a bash on the beach.
On average, RTC (Right-To-Carry) states have 21% lower total violent crime, 28% lower murder, 43% lower robbery, and 13% lower aggravated assault. Nine of the 10 states with the lowest violent crime and murder rates have RTC. 1
• RTC and crime trends. Studying crime trends in every county in the U.S., John Lott and David Mustard found, “allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did not have Right to Carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have been avoided yearly…[W]hen state concealed handgun laws went into effect in a county, murders fell by 8.5 percent, and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5 and 7 percent.” 2
NARTC is the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel, the defense bar for railroad lawyers. Next year they will be at the Greenbriar. I’m definitely going then…
Just think, one bullet from one gun from one pilot (or passenger) may have put a stop to 9/11 or any other terrorist act. Zarquawi? Nick Berg could have put two in his head and solved that problem before it even became one. Then we wouldn’t have to spend 100 trillion dollars looking for him and taking him out with a laser guided bomb. How will a terrorist terrorize anyone if he is afraid that he’s gonna get shot? The whole reason they are after us is because they think we are a bunch of ***-footed whimps. I highly doubt they would be threatening us if they realized we have no fear of them because they can be shot and killed with a .22. They figure we are so afraid of violence all they have to do is kill enough of us and we will give up. Admittedly, there are some knob-shines in our government that would love to do nothing more than just that. There are some who think that if we say we are sorry and promise to go home and plead with them not to hurt us that somehow that is all these lard-assed terrorists want. I say tell them to bite the big one. If they visit my front door they aren’t going to get any pleading at all. They will be staring down both barrels of my shotgun. Then when I am out of ammo I will throw the gun at them at