2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary to call for end of legal immunity for gun manufacturers and dealers.
Finally, Clinton will call for a repeal of the legal immunity that gun manufacturers and dealers currently enjoy under a 2005 law called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. This could be the most politically provocative of the four proposals. Not only is the immunity a prized possession of the NRA, but it is something that Sanders voted for while a member of the House of Representatives. Clinton, who was a senator representing New York at the time, voted against it.
Sanders has defended his vote by arguing that the alternative would be akin to punishing a hammer-maker if someone used a hammer as a weapon. But gun control advocates argue that the law opens the door to negligent manufacturers who don't fear being penalized when their firearms flood a community or market.
Clintons gun control push doesnt appear to be an attempt to out-progressive Sanders so much as a thorough rethinking of how to patch up a hole-laden system of gun laws.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-gun-control_5611d70ae4b0dd85030c6b3b?9lpojemi
artislife
(9,497 posts)it will be the most ballsy thing she has done. And it would chip away some of the timidness she has shown in actually standing in action for something that is out of step with conventional wisdom.
I like the other things, too.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)riversedge
(69,706 posts)and the ovaries to do this-
ancianita
(35,812 posts)She won't get anything but media coverage for a promise she won't be able to deliver on.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... good for Hillary
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,540 posts)The fact that we had to pass a special law to protect gun manufacturers and dealers is in itself an indicator of how vulnerable they are to civil liabilities.
Just as automakers are now so much more mindful of their liabilities (witness the rash of recalls and the new commitment to quality control), perhaps if negligent and malicious gun marketeers are held to the same standards of civil responsibility as every other citizen and business we can see change. If we can sue a bar for over serving a customer who has clearly over indulged to the point of endangering themselves and others, then we can surely find a legal standard of liability for over serving the gun fanatic.
Now if we can just apply the same standards to bankers and money managers and financial advisers.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)This will do almost nothing to stop the deaths of 30,000 a year.
Sanders, btw., is also offering no solutions... and I would be a big Bernie fan... I just don't buy that any US politician is offering any meaningful solutions.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Helps her figure out what all the little people are thinking.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)Be sure and hold your breath till it does.