"But even a rough patch can’t change the fact that the guns and ammunition industry continues to thrive in the United States. This year, the industry is expected to rack up a steady $11.7 billion in sales and $993 million in profits, according to analysts at IBIS World. Gun makers churned out nearly six million guns last year — double the number that they did a decade ago."I was thinking that millions of Americans might support a call for patriotic arms and ammunition manufacturers to pay the cost of keeping American schools safe from the excesses of their products.You think the millions of Americans that support the 2nd amendment (NRA and non NRA members) are concerned if companies in the firearm industry also lend their financial support to the cause?
Wake up.
Their products don't have excesses. They are inanmate. Are you having a cartoon overdose?
How the U.S. gun industry became so lucrative
It could be argued those $993 million in profits were partially due to government covering the "transaction spillovers" like the one in Newtown a week ago.
"As the business practices known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability mature and converge with the responsibilities of governments and citizens, the term 'collective responsibility' is beginning to be more widely used.
"Collective responsibility is widely applied in corporations, where the entire workforce is held responsible for failure to achieve corporate targets (for example, profit targets), irrespective of the performance of individuals or teams which may have achieved or overachieved within their area. Collective punishment, even including measures that actually further harm the prospect of achieving targets, is applied as a measure to 'teach' the workforce"
Do you think child targets deserve less protection than profit targets?
Collective responsibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia