Baltimore Wants To Sue Gun Makers Over Gang Violence

[Madmallard]

Nobody would disagree that Baltimore, Maryland has a huge problem when it comes to violent crime. After all, the city recently surpassed 300 homicides for the fifth year in a row, and violent criminals seem to act with impunity on the city’s streets on a daily basis. Now, Baltimore officials think they have a plan; sue gun makers for the gang violence in the city.

I’ve got some bad news for these politicians hoping to hold gun manufacturers accountable for the actions of criminals; it’s not going to work. The Supreme Court allowed the case against Remington to go forward based on one solitary claim that’s going to be difficult for plaintiffs to prove in court; that Remington’s advertising and marketing somehow inspired the mass murderer in Newtown, Connecticut to commit his atrocities.
For Baltimore to pursue similar litigation against gun manufacturers, they’d have to show that gang members and drug dealers wreaking havoc in the city have all been inspired by the advertising of gun companies. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been tempted to engage in a drive-by or kill someone in a drug deal because of an advertisement I saw in Guns & Ammo.

Baltimore Wants To Sue Gun Makers Over Gang Violence

Rather than hold criminals responsible for their own actions, city officials want to blame legal gun makers for the city's high homicide rate.

bearingarms.com

 

[SomeSoldier]

And so it begins.

 

[dwa12479]

It's a cultural problem. Plain and simple. And no rules or regulations can fix it. Ever.

 

[Jmac00]

this has nothing to do with gang violence, this has everything to do with constant frivolous law suites to try and bankrupt the manufactures

 

[Saltwater60]

They should sue themselves for not punishing gang memebers, gang murder solve rate of oh about 15-20%. They are so stupid it’s not even funny.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

"Oh! Let's just sue the gun makers and that will stop the gang violence." These people are either completely brain dead (which I highly doubt) or they are just using violence as a means to disarm regular people and don't really care about stopping the violence. I mean, clearly they don't care about the violence because they only offer up ideas that would never and could never solve the issue.

 

[togmaster]

Always blame someone else.

 

[Hillbilly77]

I’ve got a radical idea that Baltimore could try.

Drop the fucking hammer on these gangs and take your city streets back from the criminals.

 

[Grimscale]

This has nothing to do with stopping gang violence.
This is all about trying to find a way to 1) get a big fat paycheck from a wealthy source and 2) try to stop the manufacture of guns for civilians.

What needs to happen is for Baltimore to lose, and have to pay back multi-hundred million dollar fees to the gun manufacturers.

 

[meketrefe]

When they run out of organizations and other people to sue the lawyers will figure out a way so you can sue yourself for a modest commission.
Do you want something useful?
legalize all drugs, price them well, tax them accordingly and the crime will drop like a boulder rolling downhill.
With what you save in enforcement, penal system, etc... spend in education and people eventually will self regulate.
It happened in history with the prohibition here and Portugal is fixing the drug epidemic they used to have this way.

 

[GOPerfect]

Baltimore is a shit hole due to the types of people that live there. Get rid of the scum; change the demographics and the city will be great again.

 

[pramaglia]

Stop and frisk. Problem solved.

 

[Acer-m14]

It's a cultural problem. Plain and simple. And no rules or regulations can fix it. Ever.

there are 3 ways to fix it .. electric , injection and public hanging ..

public hanging would be the best choice to get the message out ..

 

[Acer-m14]

lawyers will figure out a way so you can sue yourself

been done kinda LOL .

Man sues himself and wins

Man sues himself and wins

www.scmp.com

 

[spat]

I kinda think all the gang violence on the part of these cities is intentional.

They *want* criminals running around scaring the voters into giving the city more power. The last thing they are going to use that power for is to solve the problems that led to them getting power in the first place.

It's like a scam where a guy selling new windows encourages kids to play baseball in the front yard.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Why aren't they suing the NFL?

 

[Jsmegs77]

there are 3 ways to fix it .. electric , injection and public hanging ..

public hanging would be the best choice to get the message out ..

Dunno, I kind of like the firing squad...I think that should make a comeback.

 

[Phauxtoe]

SCOTUS better open their god damn mouth and instruct the lower courts!!

 

[livingston]

SCOTUS better open their god damn mouth and instruct the lower courts!!

They will after everyone has gone bankrupt...Is there a safe queen you always wanted ... Perhaps this will be the last xmas you can buy it off the shelf