The NRA are even calling this “company-killing”…
Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a blow to the firearms industry, rejecting Remington Arms Co’s bid to escape a lawsuit by families of victims aiming to hold the gun maker liable for its marketing of the semi-automatic style rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre that killed 20 children and six adults.
The justices turned away Remington’s appeal of a ruling by Connecticut’s top court to let the lawsuit proceed despite a federal law that broadly shields firearms manufacturers from liability when their weapons are used in crimes. The lawsuit will move forward at a time of high passions in the United States over the issue of gun control.
The family members of nine people slain and one survivor of the Sandy Hook massacre filed the lawsuit in 2014. Remington was backed in the case by a number of gun rights groups and lobbying organizations including the powerful National Rifle Association, which is closely aligned with Republicans including President Donald Trump. The NRA called the lawsuit “company-killing.”
The Supreme Court has refused to shield a major arms manufacturer from potential liability in the Sandy Hook shooting. The justices’ action allows a lawsuit filed by parents of Sandy Hook victims to move forward at the state level. https://t.co/jwHFBLOfo3
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 12, 2019
The Dec. 14, 2012 rampage was carried out by a 20-year-old gunman named Adam Lanza, who shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and fired on the first-graders and adult staff before fatally shooting himself as police closed in.
The United States has experienced a succession of mass shootings in recent decades, including several that have staggered the public such as the 2017 attack at a Las Vegas concert that killed 58 and one at a nightclub in Orlando in 2016 that killed 49. Semi automatic type rifles have been a recurring feature in many of the massacres.
The plaintiffs have argued that Remington bears some of the blame for the Sandy Hook tragedy. They said the Bushmaster AR-15 gun that Lanza used had been illegally marketed by the company to civilians as a combat weapon for waging war and killing human beings.
The plaintiffs said that Connecticut’s consumer protection law forbids advertising that promotes violent, criminal behavior and yet even though these rifles have become the “weapon of choice for mass shooters” Remington’s ads “continued to exploit the fantasy of an all-conquering lone gunman.” One of them, they noted, stated, “Forces of opposition, bow down.”
Src: The Federalist Papers
You people need to get your story facts right. It was no the U.S. Supreme Court. It was the STATE Supreme Court. But take comfort in knowing you are not the only one to screw that up.
The first step towards civil war.
someone better checkout what the bill of rights really is
With any deranged (INDIVIDUAL) especially when a firearm is used, or a knife, or by their own hands.
Suing a gun maker, for the actions of a (individual) for a crime will lead to lawsuits popping up for anything that’s related to a crime.
The person (individual) family could be held liable for the crime. The upbringing of said (individual) most certainly is a issue in my view, but this sounds like pushing the blame away from the actual reason for why the crime was committed in the first place.
The court just screwed up by allowing to proceed with the suit. Now we are no longer (individuals)
Blame the shooting on the fact that the school was not prepared to protect it’s kids. Our schools lock up and backpacks are checked for weapons including knives. You need permission to enter the school after lock up and leaving school. The gun maker makes the guns they don’t shoot them. It is no different than driving a car. If you are drinking and kill with your car the car maker is not to blames, just the driver driving drunk or on drugs. More kids die from cars and drugs than in schools. It is just no one pays attention to driving drunk or on drugs. Almost every accident is off the news the next day while a school shooting stays on the news for weeks. Every night in our near by city someone is killed in a car accident, dies from drug over doses or is killed in gang fights. More kids are killed by shootings in their neighborhoods while watching TV in their homes while gangs fight on their streets. The neighborhoods refuse to help the police find the shooters even when it is their own kids.