Gun Lawsuit Bill
The gun immunity bill likely won’t get far this year. Last time, it was killed because the anti-gunners kept adding anti-gun bills to kill it. They added a renewal of the assault weapons ban and a ludicrous armor piercing bullet ban (which would have effectively made every rifle round illegal). Looks like that will continue to be the case:
Gun-rights advocates are hoping freshman senators will make the road smoother this year for gun makers and dealers pushing a bill that would relieve them of lawsuits brought by families of gun-violence victims.
But one of those pro-Second Amendment senators said that is unlikely. “As an outsider, and at this point, I am still new enough to call myself that, it appears to me that part of the Senate’s difficulty with passing anything is that all the bills become Christmas trees to be decorated,” said Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia Republican. “I would suspect those same amendments would cause the same problems as before.”
February 1st, 2005 at 1:55 am
[…] acturers. Sadly, the Senator concludes that it’ll be same-old, and I fear he’s right. (Via SayUncle)
OTOH, Glenn Reynolds quotes a National Review piece (bandwidth alert […]
January 31st, 2005 at 12:46 pm
What’s so hard about voting no on every amendment?
January 31st, 2005 at 12:56 pm
I might not like the tactics being used to defeat it, but this bill needs to be killed. Granting blanket immunity to an industry — any industry — cannot be a good idea.
January 31st, 2005 at 1:01 pm
It’s not blanket immunity. It’s immunity from being sued for engaging in business in a lawful manner. A dealer who breaks the law could still be sued. And a dealer who makes a defective product could still be sued.
January 31st, 2005 at 3:07 pm
I agree with Tom in theory, but support this bill in practice. The choice is between the greater or lesser evil: allowing reckless, politically motivated suits designed to bankrupt a lawful industry, vs. granting limited immunity to those industries targeted by such suits.
January 31st, 2005 at 6:05 pm
I think the gun industry should have the same immunity from lawsuits that any other industry has…including things like printing press manufacturers.
February 1st, 2005 at 2:15 pm
I think the gun industry should have the same immunity that printing press manufacturers would almost certainly get if there were a small but significant minority hostile to freedom of the press who was maliciously attempting to sue them into bankruptcy.