To make the scenario more accurate, your father bought the car for it's performance, so you kill him and steal his car, then you use the car for street racing and lose control killing a bunch of kids in a school bus, the parents of said bus sue the car manufacturer!WildBill wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:20 pmI just can't fathom this rational. I would really like to read the lawyer's briefs and the entire court decision.srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 9:09 amI think you have hit on the proper analogy. Dodge likes to advertise their cars as performance cars, even showing them racing. Many other companies do similar things. If a person driving a Dodge is street racing and loses control, causing an accident, can I sue Dodge because their marketing convinced him to buy a performance car and drive in excess of his abilities? The driver was committing a crime but the marketing helped convince him to use that specific tool for that crime. Does it change the fact that he wanted to commit the crime and might have chosen a different tool for it if that one had not been marketed that way?kayt00 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 1:59 pmI think the more accurate relation would be, could a family sue Annheiser Busch, Jim Beam, or Jose Quervo because a family member was killed in a drunk driving crash. How about Ford, GM or BMW because they all create cars that travel fast enough to kill a person (speed is at least advertised).
I hope it doesn't ever happen, but it could be an interesting court case to see.
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- Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:45 pm
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- Topic: Gunmaker Remington can be sued over marketing of rifle used in Sandy Hook shooting, court rules
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Re: Gunmaker Remington can be sued over marketing of rifle used in Sandy Hook shooting, court rules
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:16 pm
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- Topic: Gunmaker Remington can be sued over marketing of rifle used in Sandy Hook shooting, court rules
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Re: Gunmaker Remington can be sued over marketing of rifle used in Sandy Hook shooting, court rules
Adam Lanza did not purchase the gun himself! He murdered his own mother and stole her guns
So how exactly does the marketing of the rifle play into that scenario???
So how exactly does the marketing of the rifle play into that scenario???