Jarndyce v. Jarndyce for the 21st century.
Question for the lawyers here: gun manufacturers are protected. Bullet makers? Gunpowder makers? The people who sell them the metal and chemicals used?
Fully automatic weapons are illegal. If it shoots like a machine gun, sounds like a machine gun, and mows down mass numbers of people, it is a machine gun. As long as the NRA’s contract with Congress exists there will be no relief from nut cases, criminals, and militias bent on mass murder. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims who have only the sketchy remedy of law suits to somehow limit mass killings to one victim per trigger pull.
That bit about being able to detect card-counters is telling.
But I really want to see discovery from the marketing departments of bump stock manufacturers. Their internal memos are likely not what they want even gun nuts to read.
Wimpy snowflakes. This is like when people sue McDonald’s for hot coffee spills. Only an idiot wouldn’t have known that a bump stock can shoot lots of bullets. Stupid snowflakes should never have been out of cover in a big, open parking lot in the first place because doing so means you’re at risk of getting in the way of someone exercising their 2nd amendment rights. Indeed, by stopping the shooter’s bullets with their bodies, they infringed on his rights. He should be the one suing. How stupid can they be? All true Americans should know this. These people were stupid enough to go to a concert and leave cover, and then they sue innocent bump stock maker?
Tort reform now! Libtard lawyers are killing us! The American bar association is a cultural Marxist globalist organization and they sold uranium to the Russsians (and I have a chart that proves it!).
…Wednesday’s filings say. And the hotel, it says, should have had gunfire-location devices that pinpoint where shots are coming from.
…They argue what should have been routine checks of Paddock’s bags and his room would have revealed his growing arsenal.
These would be ridiculous ways to respond to America’s mass-homicide problem. The courts have long found that there are situations in which there are compelling public interests in favor of some limitations on Constitutional rights. We don’t have to become a nation of constantly armed and constantly fearful people to protect a Constitutional right. The rights are for the benefit of the people, not the other way around.
I hope for a sensible America in which we can make progress in three areas initially:
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Aggregate data collection and study – injuries and deaths from firearms should be treated as a public-health problem, with data collection as required to support studies of causes and solutions.
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Property rights – property owners, including employers and landlords, should have the right to restrict or ban firearms on their property, and the existence of any ban or restrictions should not create a liability for them should they be sued by someone who believes they came to harm on the property because they could not access a firearm.
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Liability and individual data – starting with the mass-homicide machines, ownership should be registered, transfer of ownership should be reported and recorded, and proof of liability insurance should be required to maintain ownership. Liability stays with the most recent registered owner unless that owner provides timely notification of transfer, theft, or loss of the weapon. Furthermore, insurance companies should be allowed to ask customers about firearms in a household and to offer liability coverage for firearms as a rider to the main policy.
Yes, I don’t see how the hotel can be considered even partially liable. Perhaps the concert venue had some failings but those would be safety measures that would be important to a wide array of concerns, both accidents and intentional acts.
“They can catch a person counting cards,” she said. “But they can’t catch someone carrying bags of guns.”
Those are completely different. Catching a card counter requires only observing someone’s behavior in an open area, not an invasive search of a private area (i.e. one’s luggage). There are also card counters to catch daily; it may seem like mass shootings have become common, they’re still extremely rare events.
gunfire-location devices that pinpoint where shots are coming from
These exist? Wow.