A plea to Bernie Sanders supporters.

[DanTex]

113. You don't sound like a gun nut, no. Which makes your defense of this law all the

more bizarre. How hard would it be to just say, look, I like Sanders, but when he voted against the Brady Bill, or when he voted to give the gun industry special immunity from civil lawsuits that no other industry enjoys, he was simply wrong. Do you feel like you have to defend every position the guy has ever taken?

Another thing, the rhetoric about frivolous lawsuits that you hinted at with the Louisville Slugger example is straight out of the right-wing playbook. Guns aren't the only issue where the right has been working hard, both at the state and national levels, to prevent people from suing corporations for damages. There's an excellent documentary about this topic, called "Hot Coffee", a reference to the lawsuit a woman brought against McDonalds because she burned herself with their coffee.
http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Default.asp

Like you did with the Louisville Slugger, it's easy to laugh at this woman ("she bought a hot coffee and then sued because it was hot&quot , and this incident became a poster child for supposedly frivolous lawsuits, which the right used in its propaganda offensive for tort reform. The film does a very good job explaining what actually happened, versus what people think happened. For one, the woman didn't just "get a little burned", she ended up with third degree burns which required skin grafting and a week-long hospitalization. The pictures are pretty unsettling. She also didn't immediately jump to sue, she first asked McD's to cover her medical expenses, and it was only after they refused that it ended up in court.