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>>> Battling Gun Maker Immunity ? NPR tonight
jsergovic
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Tonight on Justice Talking, on my local NPR station, they will cover lawyer attempts to blame gun makers for crimes or accidents committed with guns.
It sounds like a very pro-gun program, stating the US citizen's desire to own, carry, and fire guns, with any impingement upon these rights as the taking of a basic liberty acknowledged at the beginning of this country.
The program may have aired elsewhere.
Here is a link to this program on their site:
http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=472
It sounds like a very pro-gun program, stating the US citizen's desire to own, carry, and fire guns, with any impingement upon these rights as the taking of a basic liberty acknowledged at the beginning of this country.
The program may have aired elsewhere.
Here is a link to this program on their site:
http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=472
Comments
You need to be able to sue gun makers when their crappy guns blow up, otherwise the world will be flooded with guns with all the reliability and safety of Jennings and none of the quality control.
Tort law is all about economics. See http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=143073 for a good article about the myths that are used to support tort reform. And then think about why anyone bothers to make a quality, safe product at all. It's a lot cheaper to make low-quality, dangerous products. Tort reform is all about big business, and it deincentivizes safe products.
This is one of the biggest things the Republican Party has wrong, and they have it wrong for good cause.
What we seem to be looking for is a conditional shield against liability, with some sort of evaluation process. I think we're saying that if a manufacturer is lawful in their actions, then no plaintiff can pursue damages for injuries resulting from the actions of a third party which involve the manufacturer's products. Sounds pretty complicated, doesn't it?
I think you'll see a wide-ranging impact on business in this country, no matter which direction this moves. I, for one, would be sorely tempted to sue Ford for the actions of the driver of a Taurus that T-boned me a year ago. Obviously, a thinking person would recognize that the case is without merit, but it's no different than the gun manufacturer lawsuits.
Pete
"Be kind to your neighbor, he knows where you live"
The federal assault weapons ban expired in September 2004, guaranteeing gun control its place in election year politics. However, it is the series of lawsuits filed by cities against gun makers that has gun rights activists lobbying for protection. Cities argue that the gun industry share the blame and the costs associated with gun violence as tobacco companies have done for the public health costs associated with their product. While anti-gun advocates cheer, the NRA calls it a fight to "save the U.S. firearms industry." Gun makers and their allies won the early court battles, but suffered a setback in the U.S. Senate on a bill that would have granted industry-wide immunity from liability.