And they didn’t sell out
The senate is set to pass the gun immunity bill and without attaching riders:
Gun control advocates in the U.S. Senate, unable to halt a bill that would shield the firearms industry from some lawsuits, tried unsuccessfully on Wednesday to put some gun safety measures in the measure.
Those would not have been gun safety measures but would have been gun control measures.
With a clear majority of the Senate backing it, the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act” appears set to pass the Senate within the next few days. It is a top priority of the National Rifle Association, the influential gun lobby, and the White House has strongly endorsed it.
We’re winning.
July 28th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
Isn’t that a bit like dancing with the devil, though? I would expect you to oppose special industry protections every bit as much as you oppose anti-gun laws.
July 28th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
As I’ve mentioned before, I do oppose it, just not ferociously – have to maintain my pro-gun street cred and all. However, the good thing about this legislation is that it annoys anti-gunnies. And it’s a pretty big deal, symbolically with respect to gun control in this country. It’s like the pro-gun version of the symbolic AWB.