Connecticut Senator Not Happy With Bernie Sanders’ View On Sandy Hook Lawsuit

[jberryhill]

148. Yeah, I did

The existence of airbags eventually limited the viability of selling cars without them, because once they were a proven technology then, yes, they were required.

That happens with a lot of products. No, there is not a "free market" in the sense that one can now sell cars without airbags. They were, at one point, voluntarily introduced. But they proved to be so effective that, yes, they did become required.

You can't sell beer cans with pull tabs anymore either.

What categorical liability shields do, is to stymie the ordinary evolution of product safety.

People like to put their babies in cribs. One response to crib choking deaths would have been to say, "Well, we need to prevent liability suits against crib manufacturers, or nobody is going to make cribs." But, it is certainly true that you can't buy a crib with slats spaced wide enough for a baby's head to go between them anymore.