The families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting that happened in 2013, leaving 26 dead, including 20 children, have sued the manufacturer of the rifle of that the shooter used to carry out the act.
That manufacturer was Remington, a once-legendary gun manufacturer that fell out of disfavor after gun owners came to conclude the quality of the product had gone done. The manufacturer is now bankrupt, but in an effort, it seems, to discharge its liabilities it is offering the families a collective settlement of $33 million.
There are nine families involved in this suit, meaning each family would get $3.7 million. The manufacturer filed its offer at the Waterbury Superior Court in Connecticut this past Tuesday, July 27th, 2021.
The move, if accepted, could have two potentially radically different outcomes, one which establishes gun manufacturing liability for improper use of firearms that brings harm to others, or one that takes the precedent potential off the table altogether by avoiding any precedent-setting outcome by the courts.
For the families, who have been propped up in large part by anti-gun activist groups, the temptation to settle might be significant, even if the people who brought them to the dance would be disappointed, as they are most assuredly seeking to set definitiive precedent in American legal jurisprudence that could effectively end gun manufacturing in America.
The battle for the war against guns is raging, most likely, between the material interests of these families and the police-state interests of the party Apparatchiks behind this lawsuit (at least as I see it).
The question is this, even if the families take the cash, will the settlement effectively end the threat to gun manufactuers in America or will it create a de facto chilling born from the lack of spinal conviction of corporate American leadership?
Given the trend in corporate America to constantly bend the knee to the most extreme DNC-infused anti-American, anti-human moral codes known to humanity today, this writer is more than concerned that a settlement in this case, just being offered, is already laying the groundwork not just for some gun manufactuers that are part of larger corporate conglomerates to shut down shop, at least to American retail consumers, but also to companies on whom these manufacturers rely on to produce and deliver that product, especialy in the financial sector, an industry that has already demonstrated its willingness to assault the Bill of Rights ‘legally’ through its monopolistic enforcement of DNC-values over American ones.
I am hoping the families are pressured to not settle and that they ultimately lose a lawsuit that should have never been allowed in the first place, though my faith such an outcome will happen in this anti-American climate is not great. Accepting a settlement will make the effort to destroy the 2nd Amendment through fascist corporatism will be a fait accompli, so we have nothing to lose, really in hoping they don’t settle, despite the lack of faith we might have that the courts will reflect American, as oppossed to DNC values.
