{"id":64701,"date":"2016-03-06T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64701"},"modified":"2016-03-06T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T14:24:13","slug":"new-york-times-the-right-to-sue-the-gun-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64701","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: The Right to Sue the Gun Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The editorial board of the New York Times<\/a> doesn’t like guns. If you didn’t know that, welcome to your visit to This Ain’t Hell. Yesterday, they got their panties in a wad because it looks like the living victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting won’t get to sue gun manufacturers for the horrible tragedy that occurred there because of the pesky 2005 law known as the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.<\/p>\n

[The victims] are attempting to sue the gun manufacturer, Remington; the wholesaler; and a local retailer for recklessness in providing the weapon to the consumer marketplace \u201cwith no conceivable use for it other than the mass killing of other human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The question of whether the lawsuit will be allowed to proceed is at issue because Congress, prodded by the gun lobby, in 2005 foolishly granted the gun industry nearly complete immunity from legal claims and damages from the criminal use of guns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They claim that gun manufacturers are culpable because they used “macho military terms in marketing” the firearms, phrases like \u201cmilitary-proven performance\u201d and \u201cthe ultimate combat weapons system.\u201d My testosterone rose 10% just by typing those phrases. Good thing that my scary black guns are locked up in my safe and I forgot the combination.<\/p>\n

Beyond seeking damages, the Sandy Hook parents aim to force the AR-15 off the market. \u201cThe AR-15 is the weapon of choice for shooters looking to inflict maximum casualties, and American schools are on the forefront of such violence,\u201d they say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are millions of AR-style rifles already in the hands of law-abiding citizens. If the weapons were the cause of the shootings, it would seem reasonable to expect news of hundreds of these incidents everyday. Oddly enough, millions of gun owners refrain from shooting thousands of people everyday.<\/p>\n

In seeking justice for their children and their community, these parents could help rein in a runaway industry and reduce a grievous national affliction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I understand that the victims want to see someone punished for what happened to their children, but, the truth is that the two people responsible, the shooter and his mother are already dead. The “runaway industry” is driven by the fear that these people put in gun owners that they’re coming for our guns. It’s all demand side economics. If there wasn’t a market, there would be no guns – and the market is among law-abiding American citizens. And that “grievous national affliction” is one of our God-given rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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