Ten families who lost children in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass murder are suing the gun manufacturer that they say
made it possible:
“The number of lives lost in those 264 seconds was made possible” by the rifle that was “engineered to deliver maximum carnage with extreme efficiency,” according to the lawsuit against AR-15 manufacturer Bushmaster. [...]
Under the title “The Road to Sandy Hook,” the lawsuit painstakingly details the use of the AR-15 in other mass shootings, including those at schools. Yet Bushmaster continued to market the AR-15 as a weapon that would make others “bow down” and kept selling high-capacity magazines with it.
After recounting the individual lives taken by Lanza and his Bushmaster AR-15, the lawsuit says the defendants “knew, or should have known” that the sale of the AR-15 “posed an unreasonable and egregious risk of physical injury to others.” In addition, it should’ve known it would’ve been used in a mass shooting to inflict maximum casualties.
And of course that rifle is intended for killing people, and of course the high-capacity magazines are intended to help the shooter inflict maximum damage in the shortest amount of time. Good for them, and I hope a goodly chunk of the lawsuit goes toward examining how Bushmaster marketed the rifle implicitly as a way to threaten others—sorry, as a way to make those others
bow down to you—whether they are politicians or your neighbors or classrooms full of elementary school children.