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Letter: Wrong to target gun manufacturers

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Assault weapons and handguns are seen for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply in Springfield, Ill.

There is another movement to enable victims to sue gun manufacturers if one of their products is used in a crime.

Why stop there? How about suing the manufacturer of the automobile used by the drunken driver that killed your third aunt’s second husband? And we’ll sue the dealer who sold the driver the car, and the counter clerk who registered the vehicle.

We can already sue the bartender and the establishment, but how about the distillery that made the liquor?

After all, it did have knowledge that its product could make an individual intoxicated and therefore had foreknowledge that its product was directly responsible for dear auntie’s husband’s death.

Where does personal accountability start?

James Pritchett

McCully-Moiliili


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