Bob Blaylock
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #261
I got to ask. Why do gun dealers and manufacturers need liability protection? I mean why are they so special. If a car company builds a car, and is willfully negligent, and people get killed, they can get sued.
If a car dealership sells a car to a man who goes on some evening to get drunk, and drive that car into a crowd of people, killing several, is the car dealership really responsible?
A car, after all, is a legal product, which is used by the overwhelming vast majority of those who own one, for entirely legal purposes. If someone misuses a car, resulting in harm to others, then that's on him, not on the manufacturer of the car, nor on the dealer that sold it.
There's absolutely no rational reason why this should be any different for firearms. Any misuse of one that results in harm is on the mute donkey committing that misuse,and not on the manufacturer nor the dealer.
The tactic of trying to hold gun manufacturers and dealers responsible when people misuse the product is an illegitimate attempt to chill the right of law-abiding citizens, as affirmed in the Second Amendment, to keep and bear arms, by chilling the availability of them.