A plea to Bernie Sanders supporters.

[DanTex]

105. Obviously, that has nothing to do with the gun bill, but my answer is, yes, you should.

You'd lose, and you're also going to end up having to pay all of Louisville Slugger's legal expenses because the already laws against frivolous lawsuits. But, in principle, you should be able to file such a lawsuit, even though you're in the wrong. Access to the legal system is a basic right -- the courts are who decides.

The gun law is nothing like that, of course. People were suing gun manufacturers for negligent and misleading business practices that resulted in guns getting into the hands of criminals. And the reason that the NRA wanted this law so bad is that, unlike your hypothetical example, some of these lawsuits were actually successful. They didn't want the gun manufacturers to play by the same rules that you and I have to. So they got congress to make a special rule that protects one industry only.

Which gets me back to my original point. Any Bernie Sanders supporter who pretends to be against increasing corporate power but supports this law is the worst form of hypocrite. And the fact that so many are lining up to defend this tells me a lot about where their heads are at vis-a-vis their asses.