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Reply #90 - May 5^th, 2013 at 1:02pm

Peter Freedman wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 11:56am:

Chard wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 11:06am:

Peter Freedman wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 10:07am:

It's a pity when someone like Chard can take what begins as a rational debate and trash it to the stage where others can't be bothered continuing any more.

Hey, Pete, how about instead of being a passive-aggressive bitch you show the evidence I requested for the wild ass claims you made?

Thanks, but I'll pass.

Is that your childish way of saying you cannot provide evidence to back your claims or are you still being a bitch, Pete?

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Reply #91 - May 5^th, 2013 at 1:38pm

Chard wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 1:00pm:

No, they created a product in response to a consumer demand.

A decision that is morally reprehensible.

Just because a consumer demand exists, it doesn't mean supplying that demand is the right thing to do.

Responsibility for this tragedy starts with the gun manufacturer, and ends with the parents.

The stupid parents have to suffer with this for the rest of their lives. Hopefully Cricket will go broke: they need to pay for their greed-driven irresponsibility.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137785 Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #92 - May 5^th, 2013 at 1:51pm It seems the low-lives at Cricket are still running scared: http://www.crickett.com/
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Reply #93 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:06pm

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Chard wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 1:00pm:

No, they created a product in response to a consumer demand.

A decision that is morally reprehensible.

In your opinion it's "immoral". In legal fact it's completely kosher under US law.

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Just because a consumer demand exists, it doesn't mean supplying that demand is the right thing to do.

Again, that's your opinion and if the product was illegal or unsafe to operate then you'd have a point. Problem is the product Cricket produced is A) completely legal in the US, and B) is perfectly safe to operate if you follow the manufacturer's instruction. Sparks not only failed to heed those instructions, she did so in a way that she could he held criminally liable for.

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Responsibility for this tragedy starts with the gun manufacturer, and ends with the parents.

And what measure are you using to make that conclusion? It sure as hell doesn't have any legal basis on cricket's part.

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The stupid parents have to suffer with this for the rest of their lives.

So will their son, who gets to spend the rest of his pife knowing he killed his sister because his mother is an irresponsible twat.

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Hopefully Cricket will go broke: they need to pay for their greed-driven irresponsibility.

Doubtful. If anything people will buy more of their products. It happens evety time when a shooting happens that gets some fool in congress to indruce a gun control bill. For example, after Congresswoman Gabreil Giffords was shot there was a call for banning high capacity magazines. Know what happened? Sales for high capacity pistol magazines jumped by just shy of 300%.

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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #94 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:10pm Chard wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 1:00pm: No, they created a product in response to a consumer demand. You can't seriously run with that answer?! There's a consumer demand in Inglewood for crack cocaine. Shall we allow that to be openly traded too??
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Reply #95 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:15pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:10pm:

Chard wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 1:00pm:

No, they created a product in response to a consumer demand.

You can't seriously run with that answer?!

It certainly was his most ludicrous answer thus far.

He'll start to back peddle now: watch out for terms like "legal" and "illicit".

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137785 Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #96 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:18pm Andrei.Hicks wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:10pm: There's a consumer demand in Inglewood for crack cocaine. I thought you were in the US. How do you know about our drug problems here in the Perth suburbs?
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Life_goes_on Gold Member Offline Posts: 4772 400kms south of Yobsville, Qld Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #97 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:24pm We don't have crack in Australia.
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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #98 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:24pm City of Champions. So they say. I'll take their word for it.
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Andrei.Hicks Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 23818 Carlsbad, CA Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #99 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:27pm Life_goes_on wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:24pm: We don't have crack in Australia. I guess sometimes there are benefits living in a country a decade behind the rest of us.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137785 Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #100 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:36pm Life_goes_on wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:24pm: We don't have crack in Australia. We don't have as much as the US, but we certainly have it (some).
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Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2
Reply #101 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:42pm

Andrei.Hicks wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:10pm:

Chard wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 1:00pm:

No, they created a product in response to a consumer demand.

You can't seriously run with that answer?!

There's a consumer demand in Inglewood for crack cocaine.
Shall we allow that to be openly traded too??

If firearms were illegal in the US you'd have a point. Since firearms are legal here and crack cocaine is illegal it just means you're terrible at analogies.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137785 Gender:	Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2 Reply #102 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:43pm Andrei.Hicks wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:24pm: City of Champions. So they say. I'll take their word for it. Inglewood in Perth has a pub and ... Well, it has a pub.
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Re: US boy, 5, accidentally shoots and kills sister, 2
Reply #103 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:44pm

greggerypeccary wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:15pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 2:10pm:

Chard wrote on May 5^th, 2013 at 1:00pm:

No, they created a product in response to a consumer demand.

You can't seriously run with that answer?!

It certainly was his most ludicrous answer thus far.

He'll start to back peddle now: watch out for terms like "legal" and "illicit".

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Bingo!

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1367487307/101#101

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Reply #104 - May 5^th, 2013 at 2:46pm

You could probably go and brew up a batch yourself (it's easy) - but you can't go and buy the stuff here.

Cocaine is just way too expensive here to make turning it into crack commercially viable. Wholesale prices here for cocaine are around four times or more than what they are in the US.

People will pay $20 for a bag of rock that will provide around an hour of being high, but they're going to be extremely resistant at paying $100 for that same bag.

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