a policy that these kinds of corporate planned acts should not be subjected to our most significant means of condemnation - the criminal justice proper - is a political policy, not one mandated by legal or any other kind of, logic.  some recent gun-makers' cases make this clear. from the early 1990s on, people injured in gun shootings in the united states began to bring actions against the makers of the guns used by the shooters. certainly, the actual shooters were clearly criminally responsible because they had engaged, as individuals, in impermissible conduct with the necessary mens rea. the civil actions brought against the gun-makers to the effect that they should be responsible to the victims of the injured and dead had to overcome the obvious argument that the gun-makers had not intended that anyone be shot, that they had not shot anyone, that an independent actor - by definition, another person legally responsible for his or her own actions - had done the forbidden act with a requisite intention, which permitted that person to be convicted as a criminal.
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