Nevada's Supreme Court ruled that a gun company cannot be liable if a person uses its product for murder.

I think the judge's ruling is the only proper decision. For any product that can be used as a weapon, society has basically two choices: permit people to make, sell, buy and own that product, or forbid it.

If society decides to permit the product, it must not hold the maker liable for crimes committed using it. To do that would make production so dangerous that no one would dare produce it; in practice, production would be indirectly prohibited. This applies not only to products that are weapons, but also to other products which are not intended as weapons, but are dangerous -- for instance, table knives.

It is wrong for society to prohibit _anything_ indirectly via unpredictable third-party liability. (Can you name something else that is now being prohibited indirectly in parts of the US?) If society decides to prohibit making, selling, buying and owning a certain kind of product, it should do so explicitly and directly, not by letting others sue the makers into bankruptcy.

I support prohibiting AR-15 rifles, and other guns that can be converted in effect into machine guns with a convenient add-on. Those guns make more danger; as far I can see, there is nothing good about them that could outweigh that reason to prohibit them.

Justice Sotomayor warned that the right-wing justices are treating the Supreme Court as a political instrument, and that this will destroy respect for the court.

Republicans don't care about maintaining respect, because they aim to impose nondemocratic minority rule. As long as their supporters control all political power, they don't care what the rest of us think. Their motto is, "Let them despise us, as long as they obey us."

Workers are on strike at 58 British universities, due to the low wages and absence of job security of decades of making universities act like businesses.

The 2019 drought in New South Wales killed many of the native trees, in some places around 2/3 of them. This is in places which weren't burnt by the wildfires.

Iran has reportedly blown off negotiations on the non-nuclear deal. The other parties have not rejected further talks.