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To: Leaning Right
That would be an obvious government overreach, kind of like holding Ford liable for a guy who drives drunk while in a Ford.

That's what I was thinking. As soon as you start holding manufacturers liable for how customers use their products and services you end all commerce. All commerce.

Why make a firearm if someone uses it for a crime and I get held liable for their actions?

Why make a car if someone drives drunk, kills someone and I get held liable for their actions?

Why make running shoes if someone mugs someone, then outruns police wearing them and I get held liable for their actions?

Why run a fast food place if someone over-eats there, gets fat and dies and I get held liable for their actions?

Why make a computer, if someone uses it to commit bank fraud and I get held liable for their actions?


And on and on through countless examples - virtually all commerce comes to a screeching halt the moment you set that precedent.

For you lib lurkers out there thinking "That's silly, why would we hold Door-Dash liable for the death of someone who choked on the food they delivered?" Exactly. It is silly. Why would you try to hold a firearm manufacturer liable either? There is no difference, logically, rationally between any of these examples. Just because you don't like a product or service is no justification for singling it out. Oh wait, I'm sorry, I forgot. That is one of the pillars of leftist behavior. If a freedom loving conservative doesn't like something, they just won't use it. If a lefty "liberal" doesn't like something or is afraid of something, they don't want anyone to have it.

10 posted on 12/03/2021 10:35:34 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

dems don’t want us to have cars and guns.

This electric car bs is all about restricting free movement as much as possible


16 posted on 12/03/2021 12:47:41 PM PST by SPDSHDW (You get what you let occur with no resistance. Everything Joepedo n' felons do is on your head.)
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