The Remington Arms Company
I am comforted to announce that the Sandy Hooks families have settled their lawsuit with the Remington Arms Company for $73 million.
It won’t bring their children back, but it might save someone else’s child.
My helpful solution to the gun horror is to require all gun owners to carry liability insurance on their guns. I am required to carry liability insurance on my car. I have liability insurance on my property if you get hurt on my front porch or on my child’s swing set.
It seems to me that if you’re stopped by the police, you have to show a driver’s license and proof of insurance. If you have a gun, you have to have a license but no insurance.
Congratulations to everyone involved. For those wondering, my son was not on this case. His involvement is for the families suing Alex Jones in Texas. A couple of weeks ago, the Judge in the case was rightly perturbed that Jones’ eighth – yeah, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, bingo! – new lawyer showed up at court blatantly unprepared and asked, as did the other seven, for more time.
More time? “Okey dopey then lawyer #8, just how much time would you and your client like for me to give the two of you … behind bars.” Maybe it’s the cooler weather here in the high Sierras, but our judges are not so inclined to take kindly to lawyers who waste their time.
1EIGHTH new lawyer? That’s preposterous. What is Jones trying to do, die before he has to pay anybody anything? At least, if he keeps this up, he’ll be living in a cardboard box under a bridge before he dies. But I’d rather the Sandy Hook survivors got the money they deserve.
2I would have preferred the defendant to be Wayne LePierre and maybe the NRA but that’s just me.
3That judge must have the patience of a saint.
4I wish and hope the judge has the power to call bullshit and deny more delays.
5IMO, jones is just running out the clock as a legal tactic. Why did the other 7 quit? Were they sympathetic/aware/participants to what appears to be a charade? Why is the judge putting up with this assuming he is not stupid and aware of this possibility or is maybe sympathetic to defendant?
6This info may have already been run up the flagpole while I was out getting a beer. My apologies.
I thought the judge has called a halt to Jones’ shenanigan’s last year and told him to pay up. The same result happened in the Connecticut case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/01/alex-jones-sandy-hook-lawsuits/
7I vaguely recall that Remington subpoenaed the school records for the student victims. Did a judge approve that? And what excuse did they use? Like “7-year old Suzie was a hardened truant, having missed 3 days in kindergarten, and therefore deserved to be gunned down?”
Or Mike had started coloring outside of the lines, and needed a .223 caliber wake-up call?
I’d seriously like to know the reasoning behind their request. And if those lawyers suffered any consequences for it, like getting divorced, booed in the grocery store, or a major dope slap to the back of the head.
8Sadly, as I’m sure you know, we don’t even need a license for a gun any more in TX. ANYONE (with a few exceptions) can conceal carry with zero training. Amazing.
9“If you have a gun, you have to have a license but no insurance.”
Sorry, but now in Texas [and other states], a license is no longer required to carry a handgun in public places [Abbutt et al]; longguns were always ok, iirc.
Nor are any training or credentials required for anyone over eighteen years old.
Any yahoo can now strut around packing whatever firearms they want, open or concealed; no license, insurance, or brains required. Yeehaaa!
Watch a few local ‘newscasts’, bullets flying everywhere everyday.
[Says a geezer who carried a pistol for around fifty five years, no probs. But then, I lived on the border and worked a lot of deep nights and driving around. Saw a lot of sketchy stuff going on, airplanes, trucks, delivering and picking up. Smuggling electronics into Mexico was once big, my boss had a fleet of light aircraft working…]
10Once, when my homeowners insurance company asked whether I had an alarm system which would qualify me for a discount, I jokingly replied that I had an 8 pound poodle that barked. The agent said they would have to raise my rates $50 a year due to the higher liability. I got my bill, she wasn’t joking.
Gun insurance is long overdue.
11OT: But this Putin and Russia fixing to invade and annex Ukraine has a –simple resolution–.
There is a Russian oblast [state] which is an “exclave”, at some distance from the western border of Russia itself.
It’s called Kaliningrad Oblast, and has over a million Russians living there. Those Russians settled after the Germans [and everybody else] were forced out after WWII, who themselves had displaced various other groups [the region was part of East Prussia and Poland].
Kaliningrad Oblast also has Russia’s only ice-free Baltic port, and hence a large naval base.
Kaliningrad Oblast in bordered by Poland and Lithuania only, both staunch US allies, and the Baltic Sea, with significant US military stationed there.
The US should build up a very large military force, land, air, and sea, encircling the Kaliningrad Oblast, and squeeze the livin’ bejabbers outta Putin’s puffy ‘nads.
Watch ol’ Putie squeal, and get the hell away from Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast
12Sandridge, I remember awhile back kinda halfway joking that something going on was gonna embolden Putin to invade Latvia or Lithuania to get year-round access to naval capabilities lost with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
13Probably something f**king trump said that telegraphed his intentions to vlad the trump impaler that under his watch the possibilities were endless.
So in other words purty much anything reported on fox news at the time.
But I don’t remember knowing about Kaliningrad’s Oblast status.
So yeah.
That sounds like a plan.
Maybe start fake ads for the best Eastern European shore leave for Sailors and Marines is the pub tour from Kaliningrad to Minsk on social media seen all over Russia.
P. P. @13, It seems a good strategy to me. That’s how the ‘power game’ is played in diplomatic and military terms, a little pressure here, a feint there. Just respond to Pootie in kind, in the only language he understands, raw power.
I thought of this tactic at least six months ago, and have been patiently waiting for someone in power to at least mention the possibility of using Kaliningrad as pawn in the game.
Granted, it’s not a perfect symmetry, since Kaliningrad is actually Russian soil, while Ukraine is just ‘our friend’. But so what, you use the board as you find it. That’s exactly what Vlad would do.
You’re right on the mark about Putin’s puppet, TFG DidJioT the Rufous Ratbastard.
But never have I heard or seen a whisper of using Kaliningrad from our leaders or media pundits.
14WTF, seems like a very elementary step to me. The nearly perfect pressure point to use on Putin. Kaliningrad is about 100% Russian, they kicked everybody else out when they repopulated the oblast.
Surround Kaliningrad militarily just as Putin has to Ukraine, easy enough to do. If he moves things around, we do too, he’ll get the message right quick.
Putin would raise hell for a while, then he’d quietly slink away from Ukraine.
#15 actually the constitution DOES NOT say you have the right to have an AR15 without insurance. It says you have the right to bare arms. Sp you can roll up your sleeves all you like!!! Or wear short sleeve shirts!
15Seriously, it is all BS!!! The court (if we had one with any hint of courage) can easily state yes you may bear a single shot 22 with no restrictions. ALL other weapons are to be licensed and have liability insurance, and that would be within the rule of the constitution. But as long as eviljellycals control the rePUKEians and they have some majority it will never happen.
Jonathan P HUBBERT – your point is undoubtedly correct but overly broad. While Congress has a duty to establish and maintain post roads and post offices, that would only cover the US and Interstate Highways. Local roads are the responsibility of local and state governments, hence not Constitutionally protected and so no Constitutionally protected right, enumerated or not, to operate any motor vehicles on them unlicensed.
Also, contrary to what the “Scalia” Supreme Court said, the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” is only Constitutionally protected in the context of “A well regulated militia being necessary to the protection of the State…”, something Scalia conveniently “forgot” when arguing for an unrestricted right to own firearms based on only the last half of the Amendment. One has to read the whole Amendment, not just the part that suits one’s bias, in order to understand what is protected and under what conditions.
As a side note, of the initial ten Amendments to the Constitution that are collectively referred to as the “Bill of Rights” only the Second has conditions placed upon it. All the others are flat statements of restriction placed on the govrnment.
16Jonathan P HUBBERT @16, Somehow I don’t think Pootie/Russia having an all Russki enclave and major naval base on the Baltic Sea, part of the ‘North Atlantic’, will give them a sufficient basis for joining the North Atlantic Treaty Org.
It would be a hoot to see Poot try it though.
NATO was formed specifically to counter the Soviets, and requires a unanimous member vote for admission.
Poland and most of the Baltic countries are now members, so US military operations in them is quite normal.
Putin does actually have some valid concerns about NATO’s now encircling Russia. However he’s such a malevolent jerkoff, who gives a ratsass. Like who gives a shit about his Loser Puppet Donnei’s widdle feefees.
I’d really like to see the Kaliningrad squeeze tactic tried out, imo Vlad would blink first. Of course it could lead to WWIII I suppose… Oh well, shit happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO
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