Commentary
Now San Diego is getting into business of suing the perfectly legitimate and honorable business of making guns. Americans use guns not only for hunting and as a hobby, but also to defend themselves, as the CDC writes.
Reported the San Diego Union-Tribune on a June 13 board of supervisors meeting, “In a 3-2 vote, the board approved a proposal by Supervisors Nathan Fletcher and Terra Lawson-Remer, and supported by Supervisor Nora Vargas, directing the county counsel to pursue liability claims against firearms businesses for violence associated with the guns they sell. Supervisors Jim Desmond and Joel Anderson, the two Republicans on the board, voted against the measure.” It was a party-line vote in this once heavily Republican city….