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It is no surprise that President Joe Biden is broadly wrongheaded and also flagrantly dishonest on the subject of guns. On a simpler level, though, he is just flat-out illogical.
First, rather than belabor the “flagrantly dishonest” part of the equation, please let me refer you to today’s piece by Dan McLaughlin at National Review Online. He demonstrates beyond any doubt — as a matter of fact, not opinion — that Biden lied Thursday night in claiming that gun manufacturers have “special protections” as “the only industry in this country” that has immunity from lawsuits when, in McLaughlin’s words, “its product is lawfully sold and used as designed.”
As McLaughlin shows, numerous industries enjoy such explicit protections. More importantly, though, every industry, “under the ordinary principles of tort law,” implicitly enjoys such protections anyway. Here’s where Biden’s supreme defect of logic comes in.
Product liability suits are not supposed to succeed against legal products that are not defective and for which the company’s marketing has not been deceitful. If a nondefective product is legal and the manufacturer has not encouraged its use in illicit ways or lied about its dangers, well, that’s why it is, yes, legal. It is not the fault of the manufacturer that a buyer uses it incorrectly or maliciously.
There is absolutely no reasonable logic to the contrary. By Biden’s logic, victims of motor vehicle wrecks could sue Honda and Ford for the sins of people who drive drunk. Kitchen utensil makers could be sued if a crackhead stabs a pedestrian. Drug companies could be sued by relatives of people who use sleeping pills to commit suicide. And so absurdly on.
Then again, if we are to assign legal blame, upon penalty of massive damage payments, for the originator of any product or service that ends up causing harm, maybe we could all sue Biden. He manufactured massive inflation where there had been none for 40 years, causing a declining standard of living for almost all of us. And unlike the gun companies, Biden is the one who actually pulled the trigger on the inflationary policies now plaguing us. And if he doesn’t have the money to make each of us whole, maybe he can tap the wealth his son Hunter was given by Chinese firms, some of which apparently were intended for Joe himself as the “big guy.”
For those who want liability to attach to someone with actual “deep pockets,” well, forget about gun manufacturers, and file papers on the man in the Oval Office.
There’s real logic for you. Or, at least it’s better than Biden’s anti-gun, mental misfire.
