Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics

Although I am a pro-gun person, I point out that this is not a new attitude for fleabay, and since it is a private business, they are not violating anyone's rights. So, this is not at all comparable to the government's opposition to legal gun ownership.

Gun enthusiasts should be looking for alternatives to eBay for online auctions. Sadly eBay has an effective monopoly in its business segment.

No, we can boycott E-Bay. If you boycott the government, it gets really messy for you.

someone wrote a couple weeks ago about the beginning of shari'a law in the u.s.

just saw this in the paper.

So it looks like Islam has done away with the 1st Amendment.

Fascinating.

Now Im curious...when will the entire nation of Saudi Arabia be given sensitivity training....considering that its illegal to bring a Bible into Saudi Arabia..as in most ME nations.......

Gunner

Not in sales of guns, there are several well respected online auction and classified sites for guns.

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Many of the weapons specific websites have swap boards, for example,

That Korean dude that killed about 30 people at his university bought a couple of super capacity magazines off of Ebay before he did his shooting spree.

Maybe Ebay wants to avoid situations like that and/or lawsuits once the lawyers figure out some arcane cause of legal action against them. Dave

I suspect the reaction would be the same if it were a votive painting of the Budda, or a Talmud. Perhaps not a bible, though.

Which is actually worse: it isn't Islam doing away with the first amendment it's the political "correctness" cancer.

Which makes me wonder -- if you can burn a flag to make a point, why can't you chuck someone's sacred symbol in the crapper and have that protected? Is it just that no one has tested it? Has the Supreme Court had anything to say on this?

I'm not surprised. With the American fascination with litigation, eBay is covering their buts. Besides, those gun-types are undesirable people and should be punished.

Lets see..... They can urinate and defaecate in Christian Churches, burn Bibles and Christians but lo someone disrespect their rag and they blow up.

They are better in legal issues so it seems. I notice a number of act-ups now starting around the country. Hum...

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Arcane? No, it's easy -- follow the money trail. If there's some rich corporation even remotely connected to an incident where someone gets hurt, they'll get sued.

My father was in the fire service, and once responded to an accident involving a Ford Pinto and a horse. The horse had escaped it's field and was loose on the highway. The Pinto hit the horse, one of whose hooves went through the windshield and killed a front-seat passenger.

He followed the resulting legal action. The folks (and their lawyer) successfully sued Ford, even though the main thrust of the suit was that Ford had saved money on the welds in the roof of the Pinto -- as if a roof with fewer welds would keep a horse's hoof from going through a windshield.

Basically if you're sitting on a pile of money you can just assume that there will be PI lawyers sniffing around it, whether you bear any responsibility for anyone getting hurt or not.

Guns are, after all, defective products because when you point one at someone and pull the trigger, they get hurt.

No, wait...

it IS kinda interesting. bill moyers (radical left winger) had a gay guy (who lives in holland)

on a couple weeks ago who wrote a book about how islam is eroding freedoms in europe and how it might spread to the u.s.. it just seems interesting that there is any point of consensus amongst the radical left and the radical right. strange bedfellows. they (in europe) don't want to appear to be intolerant. there was a letter to the editor today in my newspaper where a lady commented on the australian offical who said "you can't do it here" (shari'a law), and last night also on bill moyers journal clive james commented on that guy too, the austrailan official. again, more radical left wingers agreeing w/ radical right wingers.

b.w.

Exactly. So Ebay's preemptive action, while not likable by some, makes perfect business sense for them.......and "them" is who Ebay's legal dept. is charged with looking out for. Dave

To suggest that E-Bay is not violating American's rights is a loose technicality for it does not recognize or enhance them either.

As E-Bay is an American corporation, it has a duty to observe and uphold American Rights, laws and customs. To this end E-Bay could and should handle guns.

Any the woman that ran down and killed her husband a few weeks ago bought gas at Texaco and tires at Sears.

I know, mine is defective too...it's got a hole in it.

Yes and?

firing pins, scopes and screws, brass and reloading equipment...oh f*ck yes..theres a recipie for a mass shooting. Never mind the Leftards banned firearms from that campus..making it a safe working environment for mass murderers.

Gunner