Can it happen to the gun Manufacturers too?

[HukeOKC]

The plaintiffs won the lawsuit against the tobacco companys.

Will it be the gun manufacturers next?

www.cnn.com earlier went to an older area the cnn home page has the new information.

[This message has been edited by HukeOKC (edited July 14, 2000).]

 

[Brent]

Yes, which is why you should buy all the guns you need now, before the manufacturers go under. Not saying that they will, but why wait and see?

 

[bookkie]

What is scary is that I doubt very seriously if anyone of those bozos on the jury has any idea just how much money 145 billion really is…..




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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!

 

[RHC]

An old rule of thumb among lawyers was that working people never gave big awards because they understood what money meant. It was people who had never worked, whether because they were on welfare, or disabled, or rich, who went for the big awards. That's why it's normally the poorest areas who have a reputation for the biggest awards.

You bet it can happen to gun manufacturers. And then it will be the turn of the big trucks, and then the SUVs, and then fast food places. By then the legislature will do something to stop the courts from putting legal businesses into bankruptcy, but it will be too late for the gun makers.

 

[Battler]

It is worthy of note that the gun companies don't have to be beaten like tobacco here to go under.

Tobacco can afford to WIN, and I think they will.

Not as much money in guns, all it takes to destroy the gun makers is a few years of legal bills fighting suits around the country.

E.g. Philip Morris has allocated $1billion a year to fight suits.

The entire gun industry isn't worth that.

The gun industry isn't being fought to get at its pockets, either, it has none, it's purely ideological.


Battler.

 

[Waitone]

Ideological is right!!!! All the lawsuits that plague this country are the result of a political payoff by Clinton to the Trial Lawyers Association. That group funneled significant funds to Clinton's re-election. Additionally, Clinton used this group to get around congress' reluctance to do what Clinton demanded.

With a change in the whitehouse I suspect a lot of these lawsuits will drop or settle. I can also see congressional action to the pull the teeth of trial lawyers. Clinton and Co. has forced lots of distortions in our gov't system. Lots of people and groups are gritting their teeth because they do not like being rolled. Payday is out there and it will be joyous.



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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater--1964

 

[tl]

Will this encourage anti-gun industry lawsuits? Probably. But is the gun industry situation the same as tobacco? I wonder.

According to news reports, the jurors "punished Big Tobacco for lying about the destructiveness of cigarettes for decades", and for "insulting the jurors" by claiming "plaintiff Frank Amodeo's throat cancer ... was caused by wood dust, not cigarettes". Has the gun industry lied about the "destructiveness" of their products, or ever denied that a gun, in the wrong hands, can cause death? Although I reject the jurors arguments, and acknowledge the very real threat against the relatively much smaller gun industry, there may be other legal issues that restrain the effectiveness of these types of suits against gun manufacturers.

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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is power. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master." George Washington

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