Posted on 09/28/2022 2:09:33 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the victims of the July 4 shooting in Highland Park, Ill., against a gun manufacturer for advertising that the plaintiffs argue encourages criminal behavior.
The law firm Edelson PC and anti-gun violence organization Brady filed the lawsuit on Wednesday against the manufacturer Smith & Wesson, arguing that the company played a role in the mass shooting during the Fourth of July parade that killed seven and injured dozens.
The plaintiffs argue that Smith & Wesson should be held liable for unlawful marketing and advertising of its M&P 15 rifle, which the gunman used to carry out the mass shooting in just 60 seconds.
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Last I checked, Congress passed a law against this. Oh, silly me, I forgot the law doesn’t apply to DemoRATS and Communist judges who allow these cases to proceed despite duly-passed Federal law.
I have been on a grand jury for the past three months. 5 days a week. 3-6 cases per day. If the crime could land you in state prison, we would start the process by indicting the defendant.
There has been one (1)case involving an AR-15. Handguns are carried and used much more often (like 150:1)
This outrage over AR15s is manufactured crap.
How do they prove this? What was "unlawful" about their marketing/advertising? How did S&W force or even remotely influence the shooter to go on his rampage? Did the firearms dealers involved fail to follow the laws when selling the firearm? Or are they supposed to have ESP and thus be able to foresee the use?
The problem is - all it takes is the right (or wrong) court and judge, plus a jury filled with victim mentality imbeciles...
If this lawsuit goes anywhere, we can expect all of the truck, automobile manufacturers, knife maker companies, baseball bat makers and any other device that can be used to inflict injury or anything that can cause death to soon be sued out of existence.
They need to start suing moviemakers. More influence comes from there than almost anywhere else... OH! And cRap ‘music’.
TeeVee shares A LOT of the blame, too!
Did the gun malfunction?
Sue the vehicle manufacturer that created the car he got to the scene with???
Sue the clothing company so he didn’t arrive naked???
Sue the street layout which made it easier for him to get there???
Sue——Sue-—Sue-—
This is tiresome
SUE the ACLU for demanding that mental hospitals were closed & these nut cases are among us—every day-—everywhere.
Sue the family members WHO KNEW HE WAS NUTS.
the AR15 could also be used by soldiers in a revolution or defense by attacking government troops. Pistol would be mostly ineffective except at very close range. The government of these United States is trying to disarm the population so as to eliminate a true fight effectiveness. That is why the focus has been on the AR15 and not so much on pistols
This will become SOP for slimy lawyers and Maoist organizations like “Brady”. Any time a death can be connected in any way to a gun the maker of that gun will be sued...for millions.
Yet. But they are after the magazines.
What is this? The hundredth time lawyers have tried this trick? Legal lowlives have suckered someone else.
“The release states that the first-person shooter game Call of Duty prominently features variants of the weapons that Smith & Wesson designs and manufactures.”
Sounds like the plaintiff should sue whoever makes and markets “Call of Duty”, if they can prove the murderer consumed that product, not S&W. Did S&W pay “Call of Duty” to feature S&W’s AR15 variant? I’ve seen Smith & Wesson’s ads for the various M&P firearms, and see nothing there that encourages loonatic youth to shoot up crowds with it.
When these things came to be understood it was announced by the slip and fall law firms that they were suing Shell Oil Company (yes,*that* Shell Oil). Why? Because Shell Oil was one of the "sponsors" of the band's tour.
“Sounds like the plaintiff should sue whoever makes and markets “Call of Duty”, if they can prove the murderer consumed that product, not S&W. Did S&W pay “Call of Duty” to feature S&W’s AR15 variant?”
Actually, in point of fact, there are any number of games out there which either got permission from the manufacturer to feature their products, or were an outright part of a marketing campaign. I remember one of the Far Cry games featured a number of cars from a certain manufacturer (can’t remember which), and there was a tie in with, “Just like in the game Far Cry!” If S&W licensed the video game company to feature their weapons (there may indeed be copyright concerns which would require a legal agreement), then there is in fact a contractual tie between the video game and the weapons manufacturer.
And so what, Congress passed a law against these suits years ago.
Another Grandstanding Lawyer. We probably expects a windfall from the big anti-2A philanthropists.
"TeeVee shares A LOT of the blame, too!"
WHO
Gotta proofread better.
So what were the ads?
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