Bad Guns! Bad, bad, bad!
I’m going to sue the families for giving me a migraine due to their overwhelming selfishness and stupidity.
One doesn’t sue auto manufacturers for drunk driving deaths.
“overwhelming firepower”
LOL
These families could have done something constructive in their grief (ending “gun free” zones in schools, perhaps), but they did this instead.
Such a case, if successful, could establish an interesting precedent.
Imagine, for example, automakers being hauled into court for producing vehicles powered by engines with more than four cylinders; the argument being that a four cylinder engine is sufficient to move people and materials.
Like suing Chevy or selling the Suburban that the drunk driver was driving, based on the premise that no one needs a vehicle of such size.
I took a couple of our Australian exchange students to the range. One of the rifles was a Spike’s Tactical AR-15. You should have seen the smiles on their faces.
Until the overwhelming firepower overwhelmed us.
Now, we’re all dead.
Now we are using adjectives to describe firearm specifications.
“What size engine is in that car, Larry”
“Overwhelming”
I'm suing the nine families for allowing their children to die without permission, thus putting me in danger of having my Second Amendment right infringed.
Bad Guns! Bad, bad, bad!
If this suit ultimately wins it entails a major abrogation of the 2nd Amendment. Semiautomatic weapons will disappear from production in the USA.
In a more enlightened age, these idiots might have been tarred and feathered.
They could sue the school board and legislature for failure to act in loco parentis to protect their children.
The gun free schools law prevented the school staff from protecting the school children. The school staff in adhering to an illegal law neglected to perform their duty to protect the children.
I do not see how they have a chance suing Remington for manufacturing a legal firearm. The governing federal code clearly deem it a legal firearm.
If they win this suit government regulations will have been rendered moot, meaningless and legally pointless.
It remains to be seen how much chance of succeeding these suits will have under the legal system of the United States.
Remington = Bushmaster?
They should sue the government for “allowing” these guns to be sold.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was passed by the U.S. Senate on July 29, 2005, by a vote of 65-31.
It was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on October 20, 2005, by a vote of 283-144.
On October 26, 2005, it was signed by President George W. Bush and became Public Law 109-92.
I honestly feel quite badly for these families. My wife and I have 2 kids in grade/middle school, and we expect that they will be coming home everyday, not being put into a box. No one deserves this.
OTOH, suing the manufacturer of a legal item that is used legally and without any harm by 99.99999% of its owners is absurd. I could see suing the school for failing to provide security, or suing the state for preventing any of the school employees from carrying firearms, but not the manufacturer.
This going to federal court is the best of news, because the court must consider Heller and rule that there is a failure to state a claim. Remington made a legal product that was not defective, legally sold it to a distributor, which then turned around and legally sold it to a retail gun store, which then legally sold it to a person (the shooter’s mother) who was legally entitled under CT law to purchase the firearm in question and possess it in her home. It was ONLY the shooter’s act of stealing the weapon, transporting it into a school zone, destroying property to get into the school, and finally shooting the victims in question which caused their deaths. Remington is many layers removed from any kind of responsibility, having sold a legal product in a legal manner. It isn’t responsible for its misuse than (as has been stated multiple times just on this thread) an auto manufacturer is for the criminal misuse of one of the autos that came off of its assembly line.
I predict a dismissal for failure to state a claim.
That is quite a claim about a rifle that is not legal for hunting deer in many states because of its insufficient lethality. I wish we had "loser pays" as well as federal preemption of these frivolous lawsuits. The evil and greed of people who say, "my child is dead, I hope I can get rich off that tragedy" disgusts me.