Families can sue gun maker for Sandy Hook school massacre: court

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Families can sue gun maker for Sandy Hook school massacre: court

https://www.yahoo.com/news/connecticut-court-allows-sandy-hook-lawsuit-proceed-160147909–sector.html

(Reuters) – Families of schoolchildren gunned down in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre can sue Remington Outdoor Co Inc, a Connecticut court ruled on Thursday, in a setback for gun makers long shielded from liability in mass shootings.

In a 4-3 ruling widely expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Connecticut’s highest court found the lawsuit could proceed based on a state law protecting consumers against fraudulent marketing.

“The Connecticut Supreme Court has blown a very large hole into the federal immunity for firearms manufacturers in lawsuits alleging criminal misuse of the products they sell,” said Timothy Lytton, a law professor at Georgia State University and author of a book on gun litigation.

Remington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a mass shooting that rocked the United States shortly before Christmas of 2012, a 20-year-old gunman killed 20 school children aged 6 and 7 in addition to six adult staff, using a Remington AR-15 Bushmaster rifle, a semi-automatic civilian version of the U.S. military’s M-16.

The families of nine of the victims and one survivor have said Remington, along with a gun wholesaler and local retailer, are partially responsible for the carnage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, because they marketed the weapon based on its militaristic appeal.

Gee, but haven’t the gun nuts told us this isn’t so?  Those silly judges, apparently they don’t know as much as Harpo does.  Tsk, tsk.

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So would other court cases be brought for shootings involving fewer victims, citing this ruling? Would the courts have to rule that it applied only to school shootings?  Or a certain number of victims?   Seems likely to lead to a real confusing legal landscape in the future.  Took 6 years to get this….

I’m of the opinion that if our society was better & more morally responsible and law-abiding, there would be fewer murders ( obviously so ).  But how to get back to that condition?  For certain the ‘hate-America’ bunch do not want that to occur….

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You’re right, the  trumpturds don’t want a homogeneous America unless everyone mirrors their idea of what is right and good, i.e., bigotry, hatefulness toward anyone that does’t fit their very limited and mean spirited idea of perfection.  I doubt that’s what you meant, Gruel, but it’s what it is with trumpturds.

No one is a member of the hate America crowd as much as those who want to claim they are making America great again.

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Its easy to invoke that kind of sloganeering – demonization of a strawman.  But consider that the situation ( guns – mass shootings – etc. ) needs to be addressed.  What do you propose that could actually be done towards improving things?  I don’t consider gun confiscation ( via requirements that every legal gun owner register their guns with the government ) workable. More big-brother monitoring of certain suspect demographics from which mass-shooters come from? That’s a tough sell, nigh on impossible i would think.

Any small incremental steps that could be taken to improve things?  Like an improved economy?  Less hatred being hammered into society by the leftist MSM propaganda?  More emphasis on intact families?

 

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So what works for the rest of the civilized world won’t work in America, right?  Why?  Because we have more asshole gun nuts per capita than those countries?

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Well, what does work for the rest of the civilized world that you would want to be implemented in the U.S.?  Why would those measures be opposed?  How would you suggest overcoming that opposition?

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I’ve posted my thoughts several times.  You should have been there.  But like Harpo, no matter how logical my thoughts they would be dismissed outright by trumpturds such as yourself.

 

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