California Court Reinstates Lawsuit Against Glock

Nubby, get a clue, I'm not fighting with anyone, just offering my views the same as everyone else does. Am I supposed to check with you for pre-approval before I post anywhere? Good grief!

Good grief!... Now this guy is over on these threads fighting with everyone??

To begin with, I'm very sorry that Mr. Chavez is paralyzed from the waist down, I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

And I understand that legal types, especially people who don't know firearms, would question whether a particular handgun (in this case, a Glock, but it could have been a S&W M&P), includes "adequate safeguards" (whatever that means; I expect the legal wrangling will add some level of legal definition to the meaning of "adequate safeguards").

But as others have posted, when it all shakes out, I fully expect that the design of Glock SafeAction pistols will not be found to be the primary, or secondary, or even tertiary cause of Chavez's injuries. Glocks are what they are, firearms, and can only be rendered safe when unloaded, locked, and out of reach of three-year-olds.

But the suggestion that the inclination to blame others for personal misfortunes is hardly the exclusive domain of liberals, from CA,IL, WI, or anywhere else (well, maybe from WI, 'cause we all know. How Wisconsin people are, lol).

Conservative pundits from Fox News and other conservative leaning news organizations regularly blame "the liberal MSM" for all kinds of woes, and Sarah Palin has carved out a career of complaining about how liberals regularly make her look foolish, nevermind that she digs her own holes with regularity. The unfortunate fact is that the tendency to blame others has become pervasive throughout our society, to the discredit of the society at large.

As a generally liberal guy, I'm particularly big on the concept of personal responsibility, which is why I work multiple jobs to stay afloat & keep my guns (including a Glock 22) unloaded & locked. In the end, Chavez has no one to blame for his misfortune but himself, and no amount of safety redesign can prevent a loaded firearm from being "accidentally" discharged.

and forks make people fat i am so sick of all this crap people need to take responsebility for themselves and there actions it is nobodys fault but his own typical liberal answer it wasnt my fault i left a loaded gun out where my kid could get at it but it was the gun manufacturers fault or i dont like this so nobody can have it wtf is wrong with these people

As a Law Enforcement Officer I agree with the previous posts......he should know better to leave the gun where a child can get to it......and he should have taught his children to leave a gun alone that they may find and to report it to someone. This law suit is California at it liberal finest.

Only in Cali does this lawsuit have legs.

He is a police officer, he of all people should know about gun safety. He should be locked up or ticketed for letting a 3 year near a loaded handgun. In Cali it is always some one elses fault and some one always needs to pay for some one elses stupidty.

Those same cops would be there to arrest/ticket a homeowner who left a loaded gun lay around for a child to grab. He of all people should of known better. I'm sure he's being pushed along by the lawyers too, with $$ signs in their vision.

Typical of California. Can't blame the parent, the child or the placement of the weapon. Blame the weapon. No wonder you are a broken, wasteful, useless place. All we do is throw dollars away at something that will hopefully slide off into the ocean.

What?!?! and hold him responsible for his own careless, life endangering behavior. Oliver, you are exactly right. The sad part is that he will probably win. Next he will sue the maker of the coffee table he left the gun on because they did not make the table high enough to keep the kid from reaching the gun.

how about charging him with negligent discharge of a firearm, child endangerment, child abuse, reckless endangerment for leaving a loaded gun where a child could get it