Personally--I don't want to be staring down the business end of any rifle manufactured by any of the folks on that list, if it is owned, operated, and maintained by an individual who understands and maintains the platform well. Dead is dead...makes precious little difference if it was a DD or a PSA...
****Yes yes of course you're right, but if you had the choice of being shot dead by an AR, wouldn't you really prefer it at least be a nice LWRC, or an HK, Knights Armament, etc..?
If I had a choice, I would personally hold out for being shot dead by a really nice Noveske, LaRue, and handled properly by an operator versus some beanie bunned douchebag with some cheap ass rifle, with something like a Barska scope, or one of those inferior red dots that have about a 10 MOA accuracy when *properly* adjusted and sighted in.
I get it, dead is dead, but if you're gonna die anyway, at least die in some totally cool way by a nice rifle, with quality componentry, properly set head spacing and gas block adjustment, etc...
Otherwise, I'd rather just live versus being shot dead with a junk AR setup...