On the edge gun manufacturers and responsibility

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On the Edge Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, and in less than 5 minutes killed 20 first-grade children and 6 adults.107 In 2014 the fami- lies of three of the children sued the manufacturer of the gun Lanza used. The three 6-year-old victims were Jesse Lewis, who liked riding horses and whose last meal was an egg sand- wich and hot chocolate; Dylan Hockley, whose favorite color was purple and who liked looking at the moon; and Benjamin Wheeler, who wanted to be an architect, a paleontologist, or a lighthouse keeper. Lanza was able to kill 26 people in 5 min- utes because he used the AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle manu- factured by Bushmaster Firearms International. The lawsuit filed by the families stated the AR-15 was designed as a mili- tary weapon for the U.S. Army and was designed for killing people. James Holmes had earlier used the same gun to kill 12 people in a Colorado movie theater; Jacob Roberts had used one to kill two people in a shopping mall in Portland, Oregon; and John Zawahri used one to kill 5 people at Santa Monica College in California. According to the families, Bush- master knew the weapon was designed to kill people, yet the company introduced the rifle into the consumer marketplace anyway. Consequently, they argued, Bushmaster was ulti- mately responsible for the killings and so should be made to pay punitive damages for their deaths.

Answer the questions based on the article above:

Is Bushmaster morally responsible for the 26 deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School? Why or why not?

Are gun manufacturers morally responsible for any deaths caused by the use of their guns? Explain.

Are manufacturers of other products ever morally responsible for deaths caused by the use of their products? Why or why not.

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