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U.S. Constitution Title: BERNIE SANDERS: GUN MANUFACTURERS MAY NEED TO BE HELD LIABLE FOR GUN CRIME During the October 11 airing of Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% where he stands on allowing shooting victims to sue gun manufacturers. Sanders made it clear that he is opposed to holding gun store owners liable, but he believes there is room to hold manufacturers liable to some degree. Todd’s question was based on the fact that Sanders voted for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which President George W. Bush signed into law in 2005. Speaking on Meet the Press, Sanders acknowledged his vote for the PLCAA, then said: That was a complicated vote and I’m willing to see changes in that provision. Here’s the reason I voted the way I voted: If you are a gun shop owner in Vermont and you sell somebody a gun and that person flips out and then kills somebody, I don’t think it’s really fair to hold that person responsible, the gun shop owner. On the other hand, where there is a problem is there is evidence that manufacturers, gun manufacturers, do know that they’re selling a whole lot of guns in an area that really should not be buying that many guns. That many of those guns are going to other areas, probably for criminal purposes. So can we take another look at that liability issue? Yes. Sanders’ admission that he is willing to reconsider his previous position on this topic comes nearly a week after Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton proposed changing current law to allow shooting victims and their families to sue gun manufacturers. Campainging in New Hampshire on October 5, NBC News reported Clinton saying, “What is wrong with us that we can’t stand up to the NRA and the gun lobby and the gun manufacturers they represent?” She did not mention any support of suing the politicians, municipal leaders, and school boards that render Americans of all walks of life defenseless via gun free zones. Follow AWR Hawkins on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Poster Comment: I hope this piece of Shit strokes out tonight... and every liberal asshole that would vote for him. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3. #2. To: GrandIsland (#0) (Edited) GUN MANUFACTURERS MAY NEED TO BE HELD LIABLE FOR GUN CRIME What amazes me is that during th 50s This country was flooded with guns including massive numbers of functioning war souvineers. One could even buy antitank guns by mail with no questions asked. The crime rate and attack rate was low. Yet during the sixties when the "New Left" began to emerge and the media began to fan paranoid and obsessional mentalities of entitlement within a population with poor immediate impulse impulse control and paranoid irrationality, the rates of all types of criminality began to climb enormously. It becomes clear to me that we are blaming guns instead of the climate of irrationality. It's the easy way out.
#3. To: All (#2) It's easier and more comforting to blame guns than to seriously examine the proliferation of mental problems in a pathologically captured culture.
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