Bernie Sanders Doubles Down On Support for Law That Protects Gun Sellers From Lawsuits

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1) Dumbass ADULTS bought those stupid toys for their children. Yet those adults were still able to sue the lawn dart manufacturer when their kid gets hurt with the stupid lawn darts the adult bought.

2) Oy. Not again with the old NRA gun/car analogy talking point. Seriously? Ferraris aren't designed to kill mass amounts of people quickly. They aren't designed to hurt or kill people at all. They aren't irresponsibly marketed to homicidal people. Ferraris are a form of transportation. ARs serve no other purpose than to slaughter lots of people quickly. You can bet if a Ferrari was manufactured with a sling shot controlled by the driver that lobbed metal bricks at the car in front of it, Ferrari would get successfully sued by a person injured by the driver using that legal but wildly inappropriate feature. And a car driver doing something illegal does not automatically get a car manufacturer off the hook, if a driver going that was reasonably foreseeable. You can bet if Ferrari drivers started going to schools to mow down kids going 150 mph, Ferrari would get sued. But Ferrari drivers don't do that. AR owners do. There's been a long deadly pattern of it since Columbine.

3) Suing would NOT be pointless. Suing gun manufacturers has the same point as suing manufacturers of dangerous consumer products. It gets the product off the street. Selling ARs will not be profitable if people can sue for damages from their irresponsible marketing, regardless if ARs are legal. Why the fuck do you think the NRA pushed to pass the PLCAA right in 2005, after the AR ban expired in 2004? Because they didn't want to be sued into bankruptcy for insanely selling those mass killing weapons to civilians. They knew what they were doing was irresponsible and exposed them to civil liability, so they moved to cover their asses. And Bernie helped them do it.

Yes, the law should protect all who obey it. Gun manufacturers should get no more protections than any other consumer product manufacturers. Gun manufacturers should be bound by the same consumer product standards and civil and criminal laws as any other consumer product manufacturer.

You should not let your devotion to your candidate cause you to subvert your principles. The PLCAA is indefensible.