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In reply to the discussion: Next time someone mentions gun rights [View all]BainsBane
(57,768 posts)We can play lawyer all day, but you are only avoiding the central issue: How can you defend special protection for gun makers? Doesn't your conscience tell you that is wrong? Do you really care so little about the rights of your fellow citizens?
If not for lawsuits, cars would still be death traps and auto makers would still be calculating deaths vs. profit margins. Gun companies will never improve product safety as long as they are shielded from liability claims. You continually defend them in ways that only lead to more deaths. They could stop making pink guns. They could implement trigger locks, but they won't do so if they don't face potential loss of profit. Profit is all any company ever cares about. Of course businesses are entitled to make profit, but they should be on equal footing under the law. And, more importantly, citizens and consumers should have equal access to legal redress.
The issue in the last case a matter of fact, which normally falls to juries to decide. If that is not an accident, nothing is. That's an appalling justification for you to get behind, truly reprehensible.