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In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]thucythucy
(8,069 posts)If a bar was cited numerous times for selling alcohol to minors, including minors who drove drunk which resulted in injury and death to others, and this on numerous occasions;
and if, somehow, that bar eluded being shut down by the responsible law enforcement agencies, either through lack of funding or corruption of local officials or some other reason;
and if a liquor manufacturer, knowing all this to be the case, continued to sell alcohol products to that particular bar, despite ample documentation that their product was therefore directly responsible for multiple deaths and injuries;
would you be opposed to victims who were injured or whose loved ones were killed as a result of these facts bringing civil lawsuits against that brewery? Would you to the contrary be in favor of legislation exempting such a manufacturer from any civil liability whatsoever?
To me this analogy is more to the point than that of car manufacturers, so I'm curious to hear your response.