Newtown Shooting Victims Can Sue Remington, Supreme Court Rules
Categories: News, Shooting
Well. This is dumb. Let’s break this shit down to the basics. Remington made a firearm. Someone, that could legally purchase a firearm bought the Remington firearm. Then, someone stole the gun. The person who stole the gun then murdered the person who purchased the gun. Then, said thief and murderer committed an atrocious act of violence. Now people, somehow view Remington as an accomplice to that action.
That’s quite a leap.
We buy all sorts of brands of firearms not just Remington, but, in all our years in the gun community/culture, we’ve never seen Remington once, say
“Hey, you should steal one of our guns and then like murder a whole bunch of people.”
Never. Not. Once.
We realize this is an emotional topic and something that people will likely get in a fit over if they don’t like our take on the whole deal, but it is what it is. Imagine if you will, suing Ford, because some asshole, carjacked someone and killed them, then crashed the car into a group of people, killing many. Are we going to sue Ford?
Weapons, like all things, are tools. A tool is neither good nor bad. It has no conscience, it has no moral compass. It merely exists unanimated and lifeless until a human acts upon it. That human could be good and/or bad. Yet, here the Supreme Court…the highest court in the land, sees fit to say that it’s ok to at least attempt (that’s an important distinction) to hold the manufacturer responsible.
Such silliness is the new normal we guess. Never in our lives did we think that these types of mental gymnastics would be employed by the Supreme Court. Maybe that’s just our own hopeful naivety biting us in the ass. Regardless of that naivety, this is still just…really really really really really stupid. On more than several levels.
We want to be extremely careful about how we phrase this and ensure that our point is clear. In an already litigious society, we ought to be extremely careful about creating new avenues for frivolous lawsuits that target people or organizations several steps removed from the crime. It won’t be a good look.
Let’s sue the beer companies to for all the people that drive drunk and kill people from drinking their product while we are at it. Makes scence right. This is america grows some fucking balls. Fucking snowflakes.
Let’s sue cell phone companies because people are on their phones while driving (even if it is to look at the map on their phone) and causing accidents, some fatal. The world is becoming ridiculous.
I’m suing Dell. I used their PC to make a trade on the stock market and lost thousands. It’s their fault and I deserve compensation.
The Supreme Court really Fumbles the Ball on this case. I don’t know what they were thinking about when they made this judgment. I hope, if and when the case comes up. that Remington has some good lawyers that can beat the case in court. What the Supreme Court did was wrong and they know it.
Lets sue the mother and father who created and raised the idiot that committed the crime….
Well, you 1/2 can’t. He murdered the mom. But Pete Lanza is around.
It’s not Remington fault some idiot with issues had to go on a shoot spree. Greedy people just wanting money.
One of the biggest problems is that we don’t hold people responsible for their own actions. We are to busy pointing a finger at someone or something else.
This is totally STUPID I sorry so I guess if I hit and kill someone with my Chevy there family can sue Chevrolet because I was driving a car they made !!!
The claim is that the kid who murdered his mother with her stolen Bushmaster was influenced to do so by Remington Arms advertising. That’s a real stretch.