The law would try to reverse the laws in place that protect gun makers
Can you imagine, especially in this time, the pandora’s box that this would open? It would be absolute pandemonium. Via breitbart.com
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) are pushing a bill to allow crime victims to sue gun makers for redress.
The bill would also allow suits to be brought against gun sellers.
According to The Hill, the bill is being pushed to reverse the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which was passed in 2005 and signed into law by George W. Bush. The PLCAA protects gun manufacturers from suits stemming from the misuse of their products, but Democrats–particularly Schiff–present the PLCAA as shielding gun manufacturers even in the event of the production of a faulty product.
Schiff said, “If you’re a pharmaceutical company and sell faulty drugs, you can be held liable. If you’re a liquor store and sell alcohol to minors, you can be held liable.” He added, ““Why should it be any different for gun manufacturers?”
The problem with Schiff’s argument is that gun makers do not have immunity from lawsuits over faulty products. For example, Remington gun owners were recently informed of a class action lawsuit against the gun maker over allegedly faulty trigger mechanisms, and just last year Forja Taurus SA reached a $30 settlement in a class action lawsuit over an alleged “drop fire defect” in certain Taurus pistols.
The PLCAA was not intended to allow gun makers to create faulty products with impunity but to protect them from being sued by money hungry trail lawyers and anti-gun groups every time someone buys a gun legally, then misuses the weapon. President Bush recognized such an approach to lawsuits would soon bankrupt and erase the gun industry, so he moved to protect them.
Schiff and Blumenthal are now pushing to remove those protections.
I can just see the chaos unfolding now. Parents of thugs, gangsters or teen robbers would set out to sue the manufacturer of the gun that killed their “innocent babies.” Because forget logic- there will always be people who are unwilling to accept responsibility for their actions but instead place the blame on the gun.
For instance, the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Several of the parents went after the manufacturers of the Bushmaster assault rifle, the gun that Adam Lanza used in the shooting. The gun didn’t do anything by itself, it was the coward behind the gun that was solely responsible.
I think it’s ridiculous that people would even consider it being the gun or gun maker’s fault. This whole idea, of allowing those victimized by gun violence the right to sue the makers of the tool that shot them, is just such a joke. Did anyone forget about the criminal that was controlling the gun?
Raising awareness on laws being pushed like this one is just crucial for the freedom of our country. Ridiculous laws like this must be called out and cut off.
