Sanders seems to be the only person in the gun mess that has thought things out. What is the basis for suing a gun manufacturer if that manufacturer didn’t encourage or condone the use of its products to kill an innocent person? If I wack you with a 2 by 4 do you have a right to sue Home Depot?
The CT guys have it wrong. Sanders agreed that dealers, not manufactures, that sell guns irresponsibly should be subject to action. But he stopped at saying the manufacturer should be sued for the misuse of his products. I think that’s a solid position. What’s the basis for blaming the folks making the weapon for its illegal use by another person thay had no contact with?
I don’t think the importance of guns should have become what it is today or that owning a gun should play such a prominent role in political identity but that’s where we are and like it or not…Liberals did very little to stop it. Frustrating…but taking it out on the wrong folks isn’t going to help. It’s going to push the issue further into the dark side.
This won’t matter to the Sandernistas.
They are no more aware, nor do they care, about REALITY than the Trump supporters (and for the same reason. They see a SAVIOR and thus give him a pass on everything he does or has done.)
Sad really.
Just think what the Bernie Bros would scream if HILLARY supported immunity for Gun Manufacturers?
I’m afraid some of the people in Bernie’s base share quite a few similar thoughts with those in the Trump base and would agree.
But, that’s not why the Sandy Hook families are suing. They are suing because they claim the manufacturer KNEW these guns should never have been for civilian use or sold to the public at all.
They aren’t claiming they were used wrong, they are claiming that the gun manufacturer knowingly sold weapons to the public that should have never been available to them in the first place.
Well, that’s definitely a unicorn of a different color now, isn’t it.
CT is a closed primary on 4/26 too with 55 pledged delegates up for grabs. 14 of it’s 16 superdelegates have already committed to HRC. Brutal state for Bern coming up.
Right or wrong,I think the rationale for suing them is the same as suing tobacco companies. I have mixed feelings about that but the Plaintiffs at least have the right to sue and have their claim adjudicated. That’s what the folks in CT want to do and I can understand that. Absolutely nothing has changed since those kids were brutally murdered.
The Bernie Bros like that their savior riding his magical unicorn is packing heat.
Not in Sandernista land. Every other manufacturer in America can be sued, but because Bernie was put into office by the NRA and is still subservient to that evil organization, he will not agree that gun manufacturers should face the same kinds of lawsuits as other American businesses.
It’s the ultimate corruption, since Sanders owed his very existence in public life to the NRA and will protect them to a whole new generation of voters.
To assume that gun manufacturers can’t make guns that have built in safety features resulting from high-technological advances is the problem I have. If we can go after auto companies for putting in faulty airbags into millions of American cars, we sure as hell should be able to go after gun manufacturers for their complete dereliction in coming up with a gun that fails to advance gun safety features. Of course selling military style weaponry to the public is the other problem…and Congress needed to act on that a long time ago but the GOP has been protecting bad actors and the gun companies for years. In the meantime, gun companies should be out front being a lot more discriminating as to who they sell those guns to. They are not innocent bystanders merely because they have a product they want to sell. And sorry, but we’re not talking about rural deer hunters or sportspersons anymore, nor have we been for aeons.
Gun violence, the Supreme Court, healthcare, particularly reproductive rights of women, and voting rights are at the top of my list in choosing the next President. Anyone that doesn’t want to go all the way in addressing those problems by whatever means possible are being willfully ignorant of the what’s going on in the country and in our politics.
I agree. I read the article and I’m like, “Yeah… that seems reasonable…”
I’m a Hillary supporter, and I agree that this won’t play well with Democrats in the region, but for me, I can’t get behind the argument that a manufacturer should be legally liable for illegal use of their product. If you don’t think guns like this should be available, because of the mass shooting risk (a valid argument) then contact your lawmakers to get them made illegal. But the fact that the law isn’t what you want it to be isn’t a reason to sue people for following it…
I’m in favor of stricter gun laws… but unless you can show that the manufacturer circumvented the law to make their weapon more dangerous than the law allows, then your beef is with the law, not the gun makers.
His positions on this issue are probably my biggest problem with Bernie and played a big role in my choice of Clinton from the beginning.
However, I’m not so naive as to think there will be functionally much difference between them if elected: the greater likelihood is that nothing will still be done.
Misuse? I think not. It sold a product, the sole purpose of which is to kill large numbers of people. It was then used to kill large numbers of people. The product was used exactly as its manufacturer intended.
This was not a hunting rifle. This was not a target pistol.
For all of his claims of being his own man etc this is the issue that shows how false that statement is. When asked about his gun control stance at a event in Knoxville Iowa Bernie said in his first run for public office the NRA ’ s position was they did not care if the voters went Rep or Dem just do not vote for Sanders. He lost by a small margin and rethought his gun position.
This is a big, emotional issue and a loser for Sanders among CT Dems. Sure, there are CT Dem gun owners, but I’m guessing few are hard core supporters of AR-15 manufacturers.
And Sanders would break up the big banks on demand for no reason other than size but he rationalizes no liability for gun manufacturers because Vermont votes. This guy is soooo shallow and despicable. Sorry for the strong word but he is really making me angry with his rationlization and he has all these young people he is indoctrinating. Alarming!
I see no difference between Bernie and the BS artist of the GOP. Personally, I feel Bernie is just another political con man.
Where are the Sandernistas now? Now his facade is becoming harder to defend as a Democrat. As Obama said yesterday, Sanders is NOT a Democrat. Can you Bernienistas get it through your head that he is a phony. He is not a Democrat!