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We let the drunk drivers get away with murder here, too. The drunk guy who ran into my friend on the highway, forcing her truck across the median into a head on crash with a car full of people (which killed them, and left my friend with a broken back, crushed leg, broken arm, stitches etc) was on his 4th DUI.
How long ago was this? I had a similar situation back in the 70s/80s. Back then drunk driving was just a thing people did, no big deal, hardly worth pulling anyone over for. It's a lot better now, but still tolerated WAY too much.
Or you could just institute a ban on bump stocks or limit magazine sizes if that is what you want. Making gun manufacturers liable could be extended in other areas. Someone gets into a head-on collision because of a drunk driver, now that person could sue both the car manufacturer and the brewing company for the drunk driver's actions. Someone chokes on a chicken bone or has an allergic reaction to a food, sue the farmer which raised/grew the food. It just doesn't make sense in any way, you can't hold a company responsible for the actions of someone who uses their products yet have no interaction with.I don't see how eliminating manufacturer immunity could be a good thing. I can understand if there was a defect with the gun which caused an injury, but for a gun to be used in a shooting and open the manufacturer to liability for the damages caused sounds dangerous. You're essentially making one party responsible for a completely unrelated party's actions. The manufacturers aren't even the ones selling the guns to the people using them.
might force them to remove items like bump stocks and large mags for regular folk
side note
could this extend to social media platforms?
Zuckface tried to deny liability
Yep yep. And its really sad. He is milking people like crazy and they still love him.Don't laugh, it gets better.....
So unless you agree to a recurring monthly ripoff, we will tell Trump you have defected to the radical left.
Are there really people who fall for this crap?
Yes. They are called 'Americans'
Unfortunately, I think mass shootings will increase -- yes, somehow increase more than they already were in this whack country -- due to the strife caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lots of people are struggling and lots of people are scared and lots of people are pissed.
Frustration, fear, and anger are naturally going to lead to more shooting incidents...
Giving corporations tax breaks with the expectation that they will spread the extra wealth around is trickle down economics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economicsWealth has been continually trickling (sometimes gushing) up since around 1980. When do you expect it to start going the other way?
Not even Q with all his powers is going to be able to rescue this shite of a series.
Don't use Facebook!
Never have.
Never will.
Clarence Thomas suggests that social media companies may NOT have a First Amendment right to regulate speech on their platforms, analogizing them to "common carriers" and "places of public accommodation."
In other words, Clarence Thomas is inviting Congress to ban social media companies from engaging in content moderation by stripping them of their own First Amendment rights and transforming them, for legal purposes, into common carriers or public accommodations.
You know the conservatives who have been arguing—unsuccessfully so far—that social media companies are so powerful that Congress can essentially override their own First Amendment rights and force them to host certain speech on their platforms? Thomas just endorsed that argument.
!!! Thomas cites arguments that Section 230, which provides immunity to platforms for third-party content, *violates the First Amendment.*
