If smokers can sue tobacco companies, can gunshot victims sue gun manufacturers?
No you cannot sue gun makers for something someone does with their product. Guns are a legal product and the maker cannot control how others (criminals) will use them. New Federal Laws and good judges have thrown out all the lawsuits that were filed by almost all the large cities, with strict gun control laws, in the U.S. The cigarette makers are a different story. Comparing sueing these companies and gun makers is comparing apples to oranges. Cigarette makers colluded to cover up the proof that cigarettes are harmful. The constantly lied in advertising, Congressional hearings etc. to make their customers believe smoking was not harmful to humans. They also colluded in adding higher amounts of nicotine and over 400 chemicals that only served one purpose, to ADDICT their customers and keep them addicted. Just for the above reasons, cigarette makers deserved to be sued. Angle1974 is wrong with her statement saying that guns don’t make the world a safer place. This bogus “Anti-Gun” claim
So many answers you can tell are from non smokers. The real question should be should gun owners be able to sue gun makers if the gun makers are known to be adding explosive chemicals to the weapons that causes some of them to explode in the users faces or are known to use chemicals that are harmfull and deadly to inhale that are released when the gun is fired. It is exactly this that the tobacco companys have been doing and lieing to the public about. There has been found over 1001 chemicals added to tobacco. Tobacco in normal form dousn’t contain these chemicals that seem to cause a wide variety of health related issues including acid reflux and other types of deadly desieses that were not around just a hundred years ago, even though there was plenty of smokers around for thousands of years. So the questioned asked above is kind of useless. Someone thought they had a logical question when they know that over half the population will not be aware of what is going on and whats added to
If that is the case ,they yes they should be able to sue the gun manufacturers for they are selling a product that is made to create death.Many products that are not good for society are not good for society and until they find that selling these products are not worth it,by being sued,they product will die out.
