Baltimore Will Consider Suing Gun Manufacturers If Sandy Hook Lawsuit Succeeds
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 11 months ago
BALTIMORE (WBFF) – Baltimore City Solicitor Andre Davis said the city will consider suing gun manufacturers if lawsuits related to the Sandy Hook shooting are successful.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled Sandy Hook families can pursue legal action against Remington Arms.
Councilman Zeke Cohen brought up the matter at Tuesday’s city council hearing asking Davis what the city is doing to hold gun manufacturers accountable now.
Solicitor Davis told Cohen every city in America is monitoring what’s happening with the Sandy Hook lawsuits.
Davis said if they are able to succeed in their cases, Baltimore will then considering holding gun manufacturers responsible.
“America would be tremendously served if the courts could find a way to say to the gun manufacturers, ‘You do have some responsibility here,’ so we are very definitely monitoring it,” he said.
Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner Ed Norris says it’s civil remedy to a criminal problem that won’t solve anything.
“So you sue a gun company, and you win hypothetically, what has that done for the city of Baltimore? How have we improved? Are fewer people going to die? No. What is the point of this exercise? I just don’t get it,” he said.
Forget for a moment what a travesty of justice something like this is. The point is that the Supreme Court refusal to shut down the Sandy Hook lawsuits may open the flood gate to lawsuits against every manufacturer in America, leading eventually to their bankruptcy.
Their goal, of course, is to do exactly that, with a few notables surviving for supply to law enforcement. They shouldn’t be indemnified for their malfeasance, but this doctrine is so ensconced in the American “justice” system that the firearms manufacturers will be protected when cops shoot innocent people, just not when anyone else does it.
When the government kills someone, it’s called war. If you do it, it’s called murder. If a cop shoots an innocent person, it’s called the “thin blue line,” “serving and protecting,” and other claptrap. If you do it you go to prison.
On November 23, 2019 at 5:17 pm, Copperhead said:
If this claptrap moves forward manufacturers should rightly move offshore. Firearms will be imported legally or by the Mexican cartels. The popo with have to fend for themselves as will the military, or else we become communist with government owned industries.
On November 23, 2019 at 6:45 pm, MTHead said:
If this crap succeeds. You can kiss America goodbye. Simply because what won’t be sued? Cars? Alcohol? Knives?, What wouldn’t be fair game????
Could be Shakespeare had the only solution all along?
On November 23, 2019 at 8:54 pm, Fred said:
Never read Shakespeare, but Abraham had a solution that worked very well.
On November 24, 2019 at 11:06 pm, Matt said:
What MTHead said. I guarantee that every manufacturer of anything in this country are keeping an eye out on this situation.