Cowardly white trash gun nuts from the southern slave states wouldn't stand a chance against a trained military force with its smart bombs, tanks, airplanes, and swarms of killer drones.
If the result of suing them is that they go out of business, get taken over by a public entity not driven by profit motive to neglect infrastructure, and cause apologists to suffer nervous breakdowns, I say bravo.
Nobody is surprised, and now they will be sued again, but for a different reason. Hopefully they'll be driven out of business and be replaced by a public utility answerable to taxpayers rather than shareholders.
Cheaper? When you rent, you never stop paying. The price is infinite. And if you stop paying, what you did pay for stops working. Worst deal imaginable.