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Clinton vows to have your favorite gun makers sued out of business
// Personal Liberty Digest™
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is hoping to breathe new life into her sputtering campaign against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by rallying raving anti-firearm types against his sensible past positions on the 2nd Amendment.
Despite all of his leftist economic positions, Sanders appears to pose a lesser threat to the 2nd Amendment than other Democratic presidential hopefuls in recent history.
Sanders caused a stir last summer when he told NPR's "Morning Edition" that the Democrats' anti-gun left is heavily driven by urban liberals who know little about firearms in the first place. And while he stated that he isn't against having a conversation about guns in America, Sanders said he would only support the most sensible positions on gun control.
In the time since Sanders made those remarks, Clinton has learned that many of the things she was counting on helping her build broad support among Democratic voters have been tarnished by her years of corruption and her out of touch demeanor. Being a woman, for instance, is no longer a more visible part of her persona than her ties to Wall Street cronies and lavish lifestyle. And her airport diplomacy while at the State Department evidently didn't yield enough photo ops to wallpaper over her email scandal and general disregard for the public trust.
Clinton is now attacking Sanders in just about the only place she still can on the left in an attempt to build support among anti-2nd Amendment Democrats.
Sanders, in 2005, voted in favor of a bill that shields gun manufacturers from liability for crimes committed with the products they produce. The law holds that using a firearm to commit a crime constitutes "misuse" of a product by the criminal.
Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California Los Angeles, explained the law to Politifact thusly: "[It] basically put gun manufacturers in the same position that other product manufacturers are in. They're responsible for defectively manufactured and designed products but not for failing to prevent criminal misuse of their products."
The law, in other words, makes a lot of sense.
But Clinton, desperately grasping for something to call her own in this campaign, feels differently.
"I voted against it," Clinton said on CNN April 6. "President Obama voted against it. Because clearly it was an effort to bypass legal accountability. And so here we have this remarkable situation where you cannot question the liability or the behavior of gunmakers and sellers."
In an effort to undo the legislation, Clinton says she plans to first attack 2nd Amendment organizations like the National Rifle Association.
"What stands in the way is the most powerful lobby in Washington," she said.
"If you take them all — Wall Street, the drug industry, the fossil fuel industry — none is bigger or more intimidating. What they are afraid of is that there answers we can implement."
It's worth noting here that a big reason the gun lobby is so large (and rightly so), is that it protects a right actually written into the Constitution.
But if she can get that well-funded barrier to her assaults on the 2nd Amendment out of the way from the Oval Office, Clinton vows she will then put gun makers out of business with an avalanche of frivolous litigation.
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