Sandy Hook families file state supreme court appeal in case against gun makers

[the game]

These people need to just stop.

(CNN)The families of nine victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre -- who filed suit against gun makers and recently lost their bid to take the case to trial -- are now asking Connecticut's Supreme Court to hear their appeal.

In October, Connecticut superior court judge Barbara Bellis ruled in favor of Remington -- the gun manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15, used by 20-year-old Adam Lanza to kill 20 children and six educators -- by granting their motion to strike the case. Previously, Bellis had allowed the discovery phase to proceed and had even assigned a tentative trial date for 2018.

In their appeal, attorneys for the families describe the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School as "a singular event in Connecticut history" that was carried out by a man with a weapon "designed for our armed forces and engineered to deliver maximum carnage." They argue Remington is responsible since the company "chose to sell a weapon of war and aggressively market its assaultive capabilities."
"It is only appropriate that Connecticut's highest court decide whether these families have the right to proceed."
In her October order in favor of Remington, Bellis ruled that gun makers are immune by the provisions set forth in a federal statute known as the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. That law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2005, has since prohibited lawsuits against gun manufacturers and distributors if their firearms are used in a criminal act.
"If you were starting over again to create the safest environment for our society you would not write this law," said Ian Hockley, whose 6-year-old son Dylan was killed in the mass shooting. "It is unnatural in the level of protection it gives the gun industry. Instead you would create roles ensuring that such weapons are entrusted to responsible citizens who comply with sensible laws about the training required to own one and their safe storage and usage."
The Sandy Hook families had sought an exemption to the law through a claim of "negligent entrustment," arguing the companies knowingly marketed and sold the AR-15 to a particularly vulnerable group of young men.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/15/health...urt/index.html

[Crissi]

I'm sorry, but the families are complete idiots.

[Tennis]

What a safe state of affairs. Even after so many young kids were viciously murdered, still no meaningful action?

[Deleted]

Gotta try to get that sweet sweet corporate money

Wouldn't be the first time in history something completely unrelated won a case. But it is dumb, like really dumb.

[Deleted]

What's next? Sueing car manufacturers for not building cars like tanks, resulting in peoples' deaths?

Sounds reasonable right?

[Deleted]

i hope trump acts like a true totalitarianist emperor and takes your weapons away , its time for conceratism in america to change and became more respectful of leadership and the law

[Rend Blackhand]

Why not just go the whole hog and also sue the mining company that extracted the metal used to make the weapons, the driver that delivered the products to the gun shop and then the gun shop itself for selling the weapon?

[GennGreymane]

Not gonna work with this set of facts.

[jimboa24]

What a safe state of affairs. Even after so many young kids were viciously murdered, still no meaningful action?

Yes, let's show our outrage by suing and lashing out at people who had nothing to do with the massacre.

How about we sue knife makers every time someone stabs someone else? Or chemical companies every time an innocent kid accidentally (or intentionally) drinks chlorine or bleach or some other toxic but common household product? Let's throw auto makers in jail for hit and runs!

This is what happens when you act based on passions and emotion instead of logic. You do incredibly stupid things.

[Frolk]

I stubbed my toe againt my couch, gon sue em for not making the couches with soft padding all around it.
I spilled water on my laptop and not its ruined, gon sue water company for giving me un-safe water.

[the game]

I stubbed my toe againt my couch, gon sue em for not making the couches with soft padding all around it.
I spilled water on my laptop and not its ruined, gon sue water company for giving me un-safe water.

and the laptop manufacturer for not making the laptop 100% water proof.

[kail]

What's next? Sueing car manufacturers for not building cars like tanks, resulting in peoples' deaths?

Sounds reasonable right?

If that means I can ride a tank...sure.

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I'm sorry, but the families are complete idiots.

I optomistic that most citizens think the same.

[Guy4123]

They sure crammed a lot of buzzwords into their statement.

"Aggressively market it's assaultive capabilities". Gotta get assault in their somehow.

[Putin-Chan]

What a safe state of affairs. Even after so many young kids were viciously murdered, still no meaningful action?

Should we sue the plane manufacturers for 9/11?

I got news for you

Reals > Feels

It's terrible that 27 innocent people died and Adam Lanza got away by killing himself, but he never bought the gun, as far as the gun manufacturers knew, it would only be in his mother's hands, who was a responsible, mentally stable American citizen, with a right to bear arms. However, her mistake of leaving her firearms in Adam's access was her fault, nobody else's.

There could have been meaningful action if, y'know, the criminal and the person who (inadvertently) gave him access to firearms weren't dead.

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I stubbed my toe againt my couch, gon sue em for not making the couches with soft padding all around it.
I spilled water on my laptop and not its ruined, gon sue water company for giving me un-safe water.

You should sue your parents for not mutating you and giving you toes of steel.

[Stormdash]

What a safe state of affairs. Even after so many young kids were viciously murdered, still no meaningful action?

It's a basic legal premise of the civilized world -- people aren't liable for the criminal or tortious acts of independent 3rd party actors.

[PACOX]

I hope they aren't hoping to win but merely looking to make a statement.

[kail]

I hope they aren't hoping to win but merely looking to make a statement.

The statement this family is trying to make is stupid and misguided. This is coming from someone that also thinks the 2A is stupid as well.

[Bryntrollian]

Next we should sue Boeing because a 767 took down the Word Trade Center

[PACOX]

The statement this family is trying to make is stupid and misguided. This is coming from someone that also thinks the 2A is stupid as well.

I'm just speculating as to why. Perhaps they want some sort of evidence bring forth against the manufacturers to be part of official court records? All I can think of because they probably won't win and we don't want 3rd parties to have to worry about such things. Then again Congress made it so that you could sue countries so..

[monkmastaeq]

Hopefully the families have to pay the gun company's lawyers fee's after this nuisance lawsuit is won