“It’s also a horrible precedent that could be applied to virtually any item in existence. If someone uses a car, knife, baseball bat, Furby, or frying pan to commit a violent act, the aggrieved party would be right in arguing that they should get to take a similar bite out of the company that made the implement used.”
Most gun controllers would deny that this is a precedent. They have argued that ‘cars, knives, bats, furby, or frying pans’ have social useful purposes while guns only exist to kill people.
“while guns only exist to kill people.”
As in most of their assumptions about reality, they are wrong.