Lets sue knife makers too. Knives show up at crime scenes. Heck, violent crimes have been committed with stuff you find in a wood shop too.
Why not sue nuke manufacturers too?
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quote:RIVERSIDE--A gun manufacturer is partly to blame for the police shooting of a black motorist because it sold the weapon she had on her lap when she was killed, the city claimed in a lawsuit.
Lorcin Engineering Co. negligently marketed and distributed the .380-caliber gun Tyisha Miller had when she was found unresponsive in her car Dec. 28, 1998, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday.
Lorcin failed to educate or train users regarding the safe and correct way to use guns, the lawsuit said.
Four white police officers shot Miller after they found the 19-year-old from Rubidoux sitting unresponsive with a gun on her lap inside a locked and idling car at a gas station.
The officers, who were dismissed after the shooting, said they fired when Miller moved toward the weapon. Miller did not fire the gun, and investigators later determined that it was inoperable.
The racially charged case has attracted numerous protests to the desert community, which is about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Riverside officials want Lorcin to be listed as a co-defendant along with the city in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Tyisha Miller's family, said Skip Miller, the city's attorney in this case.
"We think they bear significant responsibility," said Skip Miller, who is not related to Tyisha Miller. "This whole thing would not have occurred but for the presence of this loaded Lorcin L380. That gun should never have been there."
Activists in the case said the lawsuit was an effort by the city to shift blame from the officers who shot her.
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Do you have any idea what this could lead to? Lets sue snack companies for negligently marketing and selling food that has fat in it, something that could raise cholesterol... Or heck, lets sue restaurants for serving food that someone might choke on!! Cars kill people, lets sue Ford and GM for selling machines that could kill innocent victims... Utterly disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!
*has some seizures and faints*
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I understand wanting to get guns off the street and keep them from being used in criminal activities. I even understand bringing lawsuits against companies for negligent behavior. But the problem with this kind of abuse of the courts is that it totally invalidates legitimate lawsuits and efforts that might actually help the situation.
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No offenise, but we all know that "some" people in the States "occationally" likes to sue whatever just for the hell of it.
Not to mention that State have a justice system that let O.J. Simpson walked away like a clean piece of paper, and ruled some cops innocent for shooting a African American for 40 times.
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Oh, don't start with Amadu Diallo. Just don't start. I really don't feel like going over that again. I will, however, ask a question about it. Why did you say "african-american"? His race was irrelevant. So why mention it? Perhaps it's because you know that the case wouldn't have even been mentioned on the news if he wasn't. Hmm?
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Of course it's irrelevant, when 4 (or 3, I forgot) cops shoot a guy 40 times, then something is definitely going on, regardless of his race.
But the fact that he's a African American just made the entire case that much more......"interesting", because in this case rasicm can also be one of the cause.
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The four shot at him 41 times, hitting him 19. And the cause was that someone, seeing his wallet in the dim light, yelled "gun", leading them all to pull out their guns. Then someone fired a shot, then they all fired, and then they started thinking they were in a firefight. Thus the 41 rounds fired.
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Go to a dark place. Take a friend. Have him walk into the shadows and pull something (the nature of which you can't know in advance) out of his pocket. see if you can imediately identify it from 20 or more feet away. Remember that you have only 1 second to do so (because if it were a gun, that's about how long it would take him to level and fire at you.)
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Well, there was a witness, so they couldn't have just made up the story. He corroberated their story, including the fact that he appeared to remain standing until the end of the "firefight".
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Back to the lady from California and her sad story. I am terribly sorry she was killed, but.... Wake up and smell the coffee! No one forced her to sit there with a gun! And, if she was scared of being left alone, and if that was the reason she had the weapon out (as some newspaper accounts indicated), then why the heck did you fall asleep? Let's try to reconstruct her thought processes - "Hmmmm. I'm alone, scared, and its night. Oh, I'll just go sleepytime."
Sick and reprehensible as many gun manufacturers are, no one from the manufacturer forced that gun into her hands, and no one made her fumble for the weapon when the police officers tried to wake her up and find out of she was alright. Personally, I commend the police for taking the time to check on an apparently stranded and unresponsive motorist. Far too often we hear about the police not having the time or the initiative to help the common citizen, but the officers in question apparently did. Its just too bad that they were fired for doing their jobs.
Memo to self - don't pull gun on cops when they knock.
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