[Snuph]

So by extension knife and baseball bat manufacturers are liable for crimes committed with their products as well.

[WriteOn]

It’s one thing to let a lawsuit go forward, another to assume it will succeed.

[Old Sarge]

Whaddaya think, gents?

[rellimpank]

---That’s the small picture. The larger picture is what should deeply concern every American. Nothing has affected this nation more deeply than the “sue everyone” mentality that is rapidly turning virtually any interaction between two human beings into a potentially litigious event. Add the reams of rules and regulations enacted by government at every level to the mix—so much so that the law not only becomes unknown, but unknowable—and the trajectory is clear: we are litigating and regulating our way into a totalitarian strait-jacket.---

--the key paragraph, IMHO-

-incidentally , I entered "banglist" as akeyword--

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

So, if a drunk driver injures or kills an innocent person, and it is proven in court that the drunk driver drank too much Coors beer and drove a Ford Explorer, can the victims sue the Ford Motor Company and Coors?

[factoryrat]

Doesn’t matter. In all reality, there’s more guns in this country than their are people. Even if the feds conficated all of the guns and ammo they know about, there’s still more out there that they can’t touch if they tried. One of the problems with trying to police an industrialized nation is that you don’t know who can make munitions from scratch, how many are involved, whre to find them, or how to stop them. All of their lines of defense grind to halt when they have to go up against the very same people who created the weapons that they rely upon. A word to the wise: Do not f!@# with the people who created that shield you hide behind.

[ozzymandus]

Bonnie and Clyde drove Fords. Car companies have a lot more money than gun makers.

[Oldpuppymax]

Didn’t the SC rule that gun manufacturers cannot be sued for shootings with their weapons? Or was that a law passed by congress. (You get older and start to forget stuff!)