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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,410 posts)
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 07:23 PM Feb 2022

Newsom passes bill that allows citizens to sue gunmakers for shootings

California has passed a new bill that will allow private citizens to sue gunmakers' whose products are used in shootings - a policy directly modeled after Texas abortion laws that allow residents of the state to target abortion providers.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday that he believes the new guidance will force the Supreme Court to reconsider a previous ruling on the contentious Texas law - which lets private citizens enforce the state’s ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected - while revealing its 'hypocrisy.'

'If Texas can use a law to ban a woman’s right to choose and to put her health at risk, we will use that same law to save lives and improve the health and safety of the people in the state of California,' Newsom said during a news conference Friday.

At the conference, held in the coastal town of Del Mar, just north of San Diego, the left-leaning politician asserted that the Texas law was unethical, and slammed the Supreme Court’s decision late last year to let it stay in effect despite the fact that it had been appealed as 'absurd' and 'outrageous.'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/newsom-passes-bill-that-allows-citizens-to-sue-gunmakers-for-shootings/ar-AAU6zsK

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Newsom passes bill that allows citizens to sue gunmakers for shootings (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
Good for him - Texas "stick it" - I bet this will get the 2nd amendment folks riled up. walkingman Feb 2022 #1
Only problem I see Diraven Feb 2022 #2
I see at least one other possible problem... myccrider Feb 2022 #3

Diraven

(1,050 posts)
2. Only problem I see
Sun Feb 20, 2022, 09:30 PM
Feb 2022

Is gun makers and advocacy groups have deep pockets to publicly fight this. The Texas abortion law succeeds because the defendants would be poor women seeking abortions who probably want privacy.

myccrider

(484 posts)
3. I see at least one other possible problem...
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 06:33 PM
Feb 2022

the USSC hypocritically applies a different standard to this law than they did to Texas’ law and rules California’s unconstitutional.

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