The Patriot Post® · Newtown Families Remember Shooting by Suing Gun Maker

While the town of Newtown held no public ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre (the town’s churches, however, held ceremonies and rang bells), the families of the victims filed suit against gun manufacturer Bushmaster for making the AR-15 that the psychopath used to murder 20 young children and six teachers. Bill Sherlach, whose wife was among those killed, said in a statement, “In business, measuring risk prior to producing, marketing, and selling a product or service is standard procedure. For far too long the gun industry has been given legislative safe harbor from this standard business practice. These companies assume no responsibility for marketing and selling a product to the general population who are not trained to use it nor even understand the power of it.” Because the families did not sue the manufacturer that made the .22 rifle the shooter used to kill his mother or the Glock he used to kill himself, the families are probably treading on shaky legal ground, using nothing but an emotional argument that AR-15s are scary. It’s akin to fat people suing the makers of high-capacity spoons. More…