Gun control activists joyously celebrated a court decision Thursday, claiming that the ruling will be a massive step towards ending gun violence.
Family members of the victims shot in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting can now sue Remington Arms, a firearm manufacturer based in North Carolina, according to the Connecticut Supreme Court.
“The Connecticut Supreme Court just dealt a major blow to the firearms industry,” Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, excitedly wrote on Twitter.
[Also read: Democrats are just getting started on their gun control wish list]
BREAKING: The Connecticut Supreme Court just dealt a major blow to the firearms industry, clearing the way for a lawsuit to move forward against the companies that manufactured and sold the semiautomatic rifle used Sandy Hook School shooting.https://t.co/omfaXlMlbM
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts)
March 14, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate and senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, also weighed in on the decision, saying that gun violence must be fought “from all angles.”
Constantly inspired by the resolve of the families of Sandy Hook victims and grateful for their leadership in holding the NRA and gun industry accountable. We need to fight the problem of gun violence from all angles—in Congress, at the ballot box, and in court. https://t.co/fpJbNxNpi1
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker)
March 14, 2019
It’s a dubious moral assertion that gun manufacturers are responsible for what people do with them. The Connecticut Supreme Court’s ruling creates a bevy of legal problems and a worrisome precedent.
How far can the Connecticut Supreme Court’s reasoning go? If victims of crimes are going to start suing the companies who manufacture the weapons that are used, what is to prevent people from suing other companies like KitchenAid?
After all, more murders are committed with knives than with rifles, according to a 2016 crime report from the FBI.
You can clearly see how ridiculous this entire idea is. KitchenAid is no more responsible for a crazy person using a kitchen knife to kill someone than Remington is for the Sandy Hook shooting seven years ago that took the lives of 20 children and seven adults.
Could you sue Starbucks for an overcaffeinated person causing an accident?
The United States already has a culture of litigating almost everything, and this case most certainly doesn’t help matters. The notion that we can blame a company for a customer’s misdeeds in effect lets individuals off the hook for their misdeeds. If I had a family member killed that day, I would be horrified that gun manufacturers were being blamed instead of the awful human being who committed the heinous act of murdering 27 people in cold blood.
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