2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary is part of fundamentalist "The Family"; Bernie gives talk at fundamentalist college [View all]SunSeeker
(58,378 posts)Your attempt to defend the PLCAA is wrong on so many levels. An AR-15 with a 100-round drum magazine is an unreasonably dangerous, thus defective, product. The lawsuits were not based on the plaintiffs not "liking" these weapons. They were based on product defect liability.
If "suing a company for making a legal product that's later used in a crime didn't work when they tried it before," then why was the PLCAA passed to block these lawsuits? How could such unsuccessful lawsuits "bankrupt an entire industry" necessitating this extreme protection afforded no other consumer product manufacturer?
Bernie may be for some forms of gun control, but his voting his record on guns, and some of his recent rhetoric, shows he's quite willing to pander to gun nuts...and gun manufacturers. That is not going to get us common sense gun control.