Thank goodness we have legislation in the US to stop this nonsense. I am also pleased that the courts, so far, have upheld it, too.
Heck of a good way to make some tort lawyers rich, that’s about it. You see Johnny Edwards packing his bags for Ontario, run.
This is attempted quarterly in the USA and always fails. Lawsuits also fail regularly.
No, no, no! The real question to these folks is:
Do murderers have deep pockets or do gun manufacturer's have deep pockets?
They just want to sue the one with deep pockets!
Car manufacturers know that drunk drivers will kill with their product.
Bucket manufacturers know that toddlers will drown in their product.
Syringe manufacturers know that some people will use their product to overdose.
But I guess equal treatment under the law is no longer in fashion.
I agree that handgun manufacturers need to be held accountable!
Stovepipe jams, magazines with feed lips that are easily dinged out of allignment, and sights that won’t hold zero are all manufacturing defects.
As for holding handgun manufacturers accountable for every use of that hadgun after it is sold, I’ll agree to that when they hold automobile manufacturers accountable for every drunk driving death.
They can’t ban handguns outright (yet). They want to accomplish the same thing by roundabout means. If we aren’t careful, they’ll succeed.
Do me a favor? Call the nutcakes office and ask this jerk if he is liable if someone steals his car then uses it in a crime. Or is the car manufacturer guilty of a crime?
I have owned various guns my entire life. I served in the militray and was a Police and Corrections officer for some periods.
In all that time around all those guns I never saw or heard of a gun doing anything on its own let alone killing someone. It is an inanimate object, a tool.
If a human being does not point it and pull the trigger it is not going to harm anyone.
Not a bumper sticker not a slogan but a FACT. Guns don;t kill people, People kill people.
But then we are talking about Politicians in this article so common sense and basic intelligence is obvoiusly out of the question.....
” Playboy caused me to have Carpal Tunnel syndrome and pencils and pens caused my spelling errors”. Quote of Larry the Cable Guy
Doesn’t Canada follow the “English Rule” on liability? Wouldn’t that cut down on these kinds of lawsuits?
“The Oakville Beaver”,....hmmmmmm.
No comment. Another feline name comes to mind.