Gun manufacturer liability
According to a listserv posting,
“An NPR program, Justice Talking, recently hosted a debate between Michael Barnes from the Brady Center and Richard Gardner from the NRA over the question whether manufacturers and retailers of firearms should be exposed to liability arising from unlawful use of their products.”
Link is here. Should we see parallels to the Induce/Grokster debates? Lessig op-ed along the same lines is here.
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Wow! I never thought about the relationship between the two. Now that I am thinking about it, I don't think the “induce” paradigm stops at guns.
Yesterday, I heard a local talk show host discussing a court case involving a local hotel that might loose its liquor license because a patron died on January 1st, 1999 after consuming an excessive amount of alcohol. The talk show host was crying for reform and couldn't imagine why the hotel should loose its license for serving a single patron on New Years Eve too much alcohol (the toxicology report showed the patron to be at 4 times the legal limit to drive
I made the gun/P2P software analogy to my undergraduate class in Intellectual Property Law as we touched on the Grokster v. MGM review now pending. Being no expert on either, it probably has flaws, but makes the point. — dks