04-21-2016, 10:53 AM
(04-12-2016, 11:14 AM)Duchess Wrote: I sure wish she would stop with that train of thought. I don't agree with her at all and frankly, I don't know how any rational person would.
I don't agree with it either, but there seem to be a lot of people who do. Clinton slammed Sanders about it hard in the last debate and he didn't defend his opposing view very effectively. Polls show that Democratic voters trust Hillary to manage gun control issues more effectively than Bernie, by a wide margin.
In the Sandy Hook case, the victim families are attempting to hold manufacturers and gun dealers liable for selling military-type assault rifles to civilians (even though that's not a crime, at present). I guess they figure it's a way to reduce the number of such guns in circulation and make society safer until/unless Congress bans them.
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The families of nine of the people killed in the December 2012 massacre and a teacher who survived the attack are suing Remington Arms, the parent company of Bushmaster Firearms.
The judge last week ruled that a 2005 federal law protecting gun-makers from lawsuits does not prevent lawyers for the victims' families from arguing that the semi-automatic rifle is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians.
The Sandy Hook gunman killed 20 first graders and six educators with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle that his mother had bought legally.
"There are a lot of guns our shooter could have chosen from his arsenal. He chose the AR-15 because it served his purpose to kill as many people as possible," said Nicole Hockley, who is among the families suing the gun-maker.
The judge Tuesday set the trial date for April 3, 2018.
Ref: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandy-hook-s...rial-2018/