The Mexican government is seeking billions of dollars in damages for arms suppliers’ role in cross-border gun trafficking.
The government of Mexico is suing U.S. gun-makers for their role in facilitating cross-border gun trafficking that has supercharged violent crime in Mexico.
The lawsuit seeks US$10 billion in damages and a court order to force the companies named in the lawsuit – including Smith & Wesson, Colt, Glock, Beretta and Ruger – to change the way they do business. In January, a federal appeals court in Boston decided that the industry’s immunity shield, which so far has protected gun-makers from civil liability, does not apply to Mexico’s lawsuit.
As a legal scholar who has analyzed lawsuits against the gun industry for more than 25 years, I believe this decision to allow Mexico’s lawsuit to proceed could be a game changer. To understand why, let’s begin with some background about the federal law that protects the gun industry from civil lawsuits.
I don’t know why but I feel the need to remind you that here…
THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN AMERICA IS GUNS.
more than disease, more than SIDS, more than car accidents and suicide. Gun violence. There is no fucking excuse for it. American children are dying to fucking bullets. It’s not a dumb statement. The US government refuses time and time again to demand change from the fire arm industry and it fails to pass meaningful legislation protecting those children from death by firearms every god damned year. Those children’s blood is on the hands of the killers, true, but it is also on the hands of every single person failing to do what they were elected to fucking do, protect their represented populations.
To be fair, repugnantcons in FL are working hard to ensure preventable diseases overtake gun deaths as the #1 child killer in USA
It’s actually cars as it has been for the past 50 years, but you never seemed to care then.
No it’s not, that stat was during the pandemic when driving around was drastically reduced, and it doesn’t help that they include children to be 1 to 19…guess which stat falls into the 15-19 yo crowd? Gang violence/homicides. Of which is where the majority of our overall violence and firearm homicides come from.
So no, go read some statistics before spouting off bullshit. More children die from drowning each year than killed by the legislation that wants to ban “assault weapons”.
COVID had the opposite effect, as this article covers. Motor vehicle deaths rose following a fairly steady decline over the past twenty years. Gun deaths just rose as at a higher pace, going from third following cancer to first.
But just comparing cause of death misses the point, really: this is not a phenomena that peer countries experience. While this has become somewhat accepted as the norm in the US, there’s no real reason we ever had to let it get this bad.
As I said, gang violence.
And again it’s higher because not as many people where driving, is why firearm deaths rose during the pandemic, I didn’t say they dropped.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2022-deadliest-children-killed-traffic-235000356.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADA6TGT3hrJQdWLVm_DRywfQIqZ3p4gzK7n51ayq2yZ5TvQ3-FWija5klqZ3O_ZC7bCE2_HZMw1pVmleVT3gYUSOHlXsA2pYVzPepzPpV3ftxXJJVMRgpfqAw4Br2ZcIPzcQxYIDx7rsd8GTJBBxM2Uym9cedfRLwwDrS_xMVNxD