"If you want to shoot an assault rifle at a firing range, sure that's
possible but I don't really see the point other than if you have some
weird violent inclinations that you can only satisfy by shooting lots of
bullets in quick succession."

Rifles in total account for barely a percent of all accounted gun deaths in the country despite being a larger than 1% fraction of the total guns in civilian possession. Source: FBI Crime Statistics.

What makes the debate "so hard" can be a persons refusal to distinguish someone having a differing viewpoint with an alleged act of dishonesty.

>But guns are specifically designed to inflict harm, and these weapons
are clearly not designed for hunting.

>hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaohgodyou'renotjoking

>That guy got drunk at a bar? In many states that bar can be sued

A railing is fine and doesn't get in the way of ordinary usage of a bridge or a walkway.

>There is no other purpose to a gun than to try to cause serious or deadly harm to a living thing.

>The legal arguments for suing gun manufacturers are largely silly. However, I still think they should be sued into the stone age….. I'll support pretty much any strategy that leads to the shutting down of
gun manufacturers and the removal of guns from the hands of all the
citizens of this country. I would love…

Is that always a crime? No?

>how about a light that turns on when the gun is active and loaded?

Yes, for the same things you could sue a manufacturer of any other good for.

Is the only feasible use of a gun a criminal usage?

Why?

No, the non-existence of seat belts was a design-flaw lawsuit.

Yes, the law doesn't prevent actual specific negligence theories. Read it yourself.

It made then uniquely exempt because the common law post 1980's made them uniquely liable to a new theory of negligence.

That "gun immunity" is the standard of liability that is applied to all other industry. There was an exception carved out based on bunk theories of Tort in the late 80s in the height of the "Saturday Night Special" alarmist which was mostly fueled by racism.