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Suing gunmaker is just bad practice

Last week, families of two of the victims in the 1999 Pizza Hut murders filed suit against Glock Inc., the manufacturer of the weapon used in killings. Several other parties who bought and the sold the gun prior to the shooting were also named as defendants.

The attorney for the families, Patrick Butler, said he hoped the suit would make gun makers more cautious about gun safety so that tragedies like the Pizza Hut murders do not take place again. Specifically, the suit charges Glock with negligence because it was more concerned with selling a large number of guns than it was with gun safety.

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