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View Poll Results: Should We End Gun Industry Immunity?
Yes 61 30.81%
No 132 66.67%
Maybe 0 0%
Other 5 2.53%
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Old 02-26-2018, 03:17 PM
 
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Originally Posted by TreeBeard View Post
If guns are so bad why have they not been sued like the tobacco industry or subject to class action law suits?

Well, those type of actions were being used until Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in 2005. The law shields the gun industry from class action and other legal actions to hold them accountable. There are six exceptions to the law, but they are narrowly defined to product defects.



Gun Industry Immunity | Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

I believe if this law and other gun immunity laws were repealed the amount of gun violence and school shooting would drop and drop dramatically. Hit anyone in the pocketbook and there will be meaningful corrective action.
All this would do is drive gun manufacturers underground. Foreign shipments of counterfeit guns would be even less safe than current guns.
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Old 03-02-2018, 04:13 AM
 
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One of the dumber ideas out there.

Well maybe not, can i sue the Dairy Queen because i'm fat ?
No more than you can sue Colt or the NRA because you shot and killed yourself!
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Old 03-02-2018, 05:55 AM
 
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Old 03-02-2018, 06:13 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Why should gun manufacturers or the NRA be held "accountable" for something they had nothing to do with? Should the auto industry or AAA be held accountable for drivers who cause auto accidents, that are not due to defects in the automobile, that result in deaths?

Should knife manufacturers be held accountable for stabbing deaths committed by criminals with knives?

What has happened to reason and common sense?

If we have a right to "keep and bear arms," that assumes that there is a right to manufacture and sell firearms, does it not? Self defense requires the means to by which to exercise that right. If not, that right doesn't exist.
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Old 03-02-2018, 06:15 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Hey, people have already tried that.
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Old 03-02-2018, 06:20 AM
 
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It worked for the vaccine industry.

You can be killed by a vaccine and the manufacturers won't pay your family a dime. Full immunity from prosecution, you cannot sue them at all. Never get your day in court against the manufacturer.
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Old 03-02-2018, 06:21 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Dairy Queen does not have a federal law protecting it. Why does the Gun Industry?
Probably because frivolous law suits have tried to hold manufactures accountable for illegal acts committed by criminals using their products.

It isn't the gun, it is the individual's actions that are responsible. Someone with criminal intent will find a way to carry out their crime no matter what laws are passed. Criminals don't care about what the Law says.

Why are liberals incapable of using logic?
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Old 03-02-2018, 06:22 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Because of loony libs like yourself.
Bingo!
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Old 03-02-2018, 06:48 AM
 
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Probably because frivolous law suits have tried to hold manufactures accountable for illegal acts committed by criminals using their products.

It isn't the gun, it is the individual's actions that are responsible. Someone with criminal intent will find a way to carry out their crime no matter what laws are passed. Criminals don't care about what the Law says.

Why are liberals incapable of using logic?
So where's the logic in producing millions of militaristic styled semi-automatic firearms that can be easily converted into automatic rapid fire weapons of war?

Weapons of war that can be easily accessorized with high capacity magazines and silencers.

Why would the NRA NOT advocate for a ban upon all high capacity magazines and silencers?

The answer is simply the fact that the NRA serves as the Paper Puppet Pimp of the gun industry. It pays the prostituting GOP congress to pave the road of profit for the gun industry.

Whenever mass-murders occur, victim's families and friiends cannot directly sue gun companies because they are now protected. However, they can speak disparagingly of the NRA, which I'm certain was set up as design.

The NRA serves as the official defector of all gun complaints, as it continues to both protect and strengthen the gun industry.

So yeah, if you listen and carefully observe, the logic is clearly apparent....
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Old 03-02-2018, 06:58 AM
 
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Why should gun manufacturers or the NRA be held "accountable" for something they had nothing to do with? Should the auto industry or AAA be held accountable for drivers who cause auto accidents, that are not due to defects in the automobile, that result in deaths?

Should knife manufacturers be held accountable for stabbing deaths committed by criminals with knives?

What has happened to reason and common sense?

If we have a right to "keep and bear arms," that assumes that there is a right to manufacture and sell firearms, does it not? Self defense requires the means to by which to exercise that right. If not, that right doesn't exist.
What about the right to go about daily life, without the fear that some nut with a huge gripe or chip on their shoulder, and temper flaring coming around the corner and shooting the hell out of us?
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