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Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets
SicariusMan writes "Looks like warnings and other precautions were not enough to save Buckyballs Magnets. According to this report, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is concerned about the increase in children swallowing the rare earth magnets, and has issued its first stop-sale order in 11 years. Amazon and others have already agreed to stop selling the toys. 'Although the commission issued a safety alert in November, it has received more than a dozen reports since then of children ingesting the magnets, with many requiring surgery, it said. More than 2 million Buckyballs and at least 200,000 Buckycubes, a similar cube-shaped magnet, have been sold in the United States.'"
Shooting the gun isn't a gross misuse of the gun. It may be illegal to shoot another person, but firing the weapon is what it's designed for.
Swallowing a magnet isn't. Dumbass.
It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
And why is it my problem that some other parent can't keep an eye on their kids??
Freakin' moronic parents....Think Geek has already pulled them from their site.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
You may have heard of the "Republican Party".
From the articles I have read "at least a dozen children" have swallowed them, and I haven't found a single confirmed case of a death.
Compare that to over 7000 gun related homicides in the US in ONE year, including approximately 300 children. And ANOTHER 180 or so were killed unintentionally (many of those self-inflicted).
So yeah, why are we outlawing magnets while letting any moron buy bullets? If the CPSC can ban a toy *meant for adults* and sue the manufacturer, would would be the legal difference in banning ammunition and suing those manufacturers? If this suit is successful it would seem like the manufacturer can be held liable for any dangerous product, regardless of their warnings...
Actually, no it wasn't a democratic government that banned them. It was an agency under the executive which happens to be controlled by the democrats who like to be referred to as democratic but that isn't the same as a democratic government. There is no evidence to date that any elected official played any part in the issue of the ban. Certainly no act of congress has happened specifically to this.
I can understand the confusion though, the article says they will fight the ban that was issued by Obama's hand picked agency.