Lawfare, Part n+1
B.L.U.F.
Mexico sued S&W and other manufacturers. They claim that but for those evil gun makers, the cartels would not have guns.
The district court said, “PLCAA applies. Get the out of my courtroom”.
Mexico appealed, the First Circuit says the case can go on. The price of your firearms just went up, again.
(1400 words)
The first pages of the opinion issued by the First Circuit court tell us that The People have lost another round. It takes nearly 30 pages to find out why, though.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) was put in place by a bipartisan congress to stop those anti-gunners that were filing nuisance suits against entities in the firearms’ industry. FFLs and manufacturers, primarily.
Since the PLCAA passed, those same anti-gunners have been trying to find a way around it. On the media front, they make the false claim that “only the gun industry can’t be sued”. This has never been true.
The arms industry is the only industry where people attempt to hold the manufacturer responsible for the acts of a third party. The standard example would be a wife suing Ford because her husband was killed by a drunk driver driving a Ford F-150.
Or worse, suing because her husband was that drunk driver and was killed in a traffic incident which he caused.
It doesn’t make sense. The argument is based on two shaky, and false, foundations: 1) There is no need for guns, 2) If they didn’t make guns, nobody would be killed.
I’m reminded of this quote:
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.”
[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper’s Magazine, November 11, 2011]
And I’m not sure those who wish to disarm us are “good people”. They do horrible things, though.
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