Bootney Lee Farnsworth
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- Aug 15, 2017
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The gun manufacturing immunity is strictly to prevent malicious litigation.I don’t disagree with you. Twitter and social media will go out of business if they go wild censuring innocuous statements or every controversial comment.
Despite my defending Twitter in this case, I have no great love for social media. I think it is a bane on civilized society. My issue is purely a legal issue of removing legal immunity just from them. Remove it from all social media then. I have a problem with legislative immunity in general anyway. Take it away from social media then take it away from the gun industry or any other industry that benefits from exemptions for the sake of profits.
Let the people decide via juries if they are liable.
No manufacturer of a firearm should be responsible for the criminal use of their device. That is not the intent of tort law. That is only a protection against politically-motivated frivolous litigation aimed at maliciously destroying the industry, which is not only an abuse of the litigation process, but a national security risk (the military needs arms manufacturers).
They still have liability for defective design and manufacturing.
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