Can Shooting Victims Sue Gun Makers?

In animal populations, after inducing sexual aberrations including sterility and homosexual behavior, overcrowding induces vicious, violent behavior...the kind of thing that's classified as suicidal or criminal insanity in humans. Crowded rats don't think of the kind of bizarre aberrant ideas that spew out of crowded humans. Usually they just bite, fight, and kill each other.

However, the logic behind a New York state court's recent ruling, reported by Jason Howerton, suggests overcrowding as an explanation...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ny-appeal-court-rules-shooting-victim-may-sue-gun-maker/

To the extent that human-style thinking is involved here, the thinking would presumably be, "People shoot people, and a violent teenager shot Daniel Williams. However, we feel sorry for victims and want to give them money. The violent teenager doesn't have any money. We could give Williams money out of our own personal pockets, just because we feel sorry for him, but we feel more pleasure in ordering someone else to give him money. Whom can we pick? The criminal who sold the gun to the violent teenager has already been convicted, so he doesn't have any money either. Let's go after the manufacturer! Let's blame him for trading with someone who paid cash. Yes, let's discriminate against people who get their legal tender straight from the U.S. government, without paying some third party who might be related to us to process money for them! This feels good, so let's do it! Who cares about the effect upholding this ridiculous decision will have on our country! Woo-hoo!"

Right. So if this case isn't overturned, next year somebody can sue General Motors because Honest (Har Har) John's Used Car Lot sold an old Chevy to a demented senior citizen who forgot that, when you drive to the post office to mail a letter, you're supposed to park the car outside and walk into the post office.

(I didn't make that up. In the 1990s a senile citizen of Scott County suffered that kind of lapse outside the Gate City post office, which is why the section of the post office where postal employees work now has a fortress-thick brick wall and only small, high-placed windows.)

Then, while every American who has ever felt a desire to recover some of the money s/he had spent on a motor vehicle joins the dogpile on the manufacturers of America's all-time deadliest non-nuclear invention, we'll see lawsuits against Lilly Pharmaceutical because street dealers have discovered that snorting large quantities of Prozac gets people almost as "high" as cocaine...lawsuits against Exxon because a previously convicted arsonist pumped gas, then siphoned it out of the car and used it to burn down a building...lawsuits against Lowe's because some Prozac-demented fool who wasn't able to buy bullets was able to corner three co-workers while wielding a battery-powered drill...

The federal Supreme Court needs to step in and overturn this idiotic ruling, while we still have any industry at all.