Sanders Calls for Stricter Gun Control

[Fearless]

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I think we can now set the lie to rest. Bernie actually supports stricter gun control. Full stop.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Uh oh!!!

Here we go again!

[BainsBane]

2. So suddenly voting record doesn't matter?

[PADemD]

3. War votes still count.

Same as in 2008.

[BainsBane]

8. But the vote that made this possible doesn't?

A federal judge ordered the parents of a Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting victim to pay court costs and attorney fees as a result of a lawsuit filed last year, and the defendants in the case say the family owes around a quarter of a million dollars.

According to court documents filed April 10, in a combined sum, Lucky Gunner and Sportsman Guide paid roughly $224,600 to fight allegations that they failed to properly vet the gunman who used their products to kill 12 people and injure 70 others during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in July 2012.

BulkAmmo.com, more commonly known as Lucky Gunner, requested $151,574.70 in attorney and travel fees. And Sportsman Guide requested $73,037.87 on similar expenses.

Brian Platt, owner of BTP Arms, an online retailer that sold the gunman tear gas, has also requested $23,714.99 for attorney fees and $33,569.89 in relief.
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The lawsuit was part a larger effort by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to expose unscrupulous gun dealers that ignore obvious warning signs and sell to customers with malicious intentions.

The plaintiffs, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, whose daughter, 24-year-old Jessica Ghawi, was killed in the shooting, filed suit in September, but a senior district judge dismissed the claims last month.

The judge cited the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in the ruling, a law passed in 2005 to shield gun makers and retailers from liability for injuries caused by a third party with their products.

http://www.guns.com/2015/04/23/aurora-theater-victims-family-may-owe-280000-in-lucky-gunner-lawsuit/


Bernie voted for that law, and he voted against the Brady Bill.

[PADemD]

9. The Plaintiffs should have been advised not to file suit.

They should have been advised to try to have the law changed instead.

If the law would not allow the sale of assault weapons, teargas, and large quantities of ammo, the manufacturers would have to comply.

Just recently, Reading PA has reinstated gun restrictions after the PA Supreme Court overturned an NRA inspired law that restricted local communities from passing gun ordinances, with the threat of lawsuit by the NRA or others.

[BainsBane]

10. Because the rights of corporations come first

and citizens should know they don't matter. Nice to see people backing up corporate greed over the rights of little people. I guess as long as the corporations reap profits from murder, whether domestic like gun manufacturers and dealers, or through war like Lockheed Martin, it's all okay.

[PADemD]

11. I didn't say it was OK that the rights of the corporation come first.

Their attorney should have advised them that the law was not on their side. You win by changing the law.

[wyldwolf]

4. good for Sanders. To paraphrase the attack lines against Hillary...

"That was quick evolution."

[riversedge]

5. Thank you Bernie #gunsense

[Fred Sanders]

6. "I fully support all the legal proposals of the Brady Campaign". Just say it.

"I fully support a repeal of the ancient and antiquated second amendment". Just say it.

With feeling.

"The NRA is evil". It is easy to say it.

Just say it.

"I fully support an Australian style buyback of guns".

Why does he not say it?

[onehandle]

7. Doesn't he sit in some legislative body?

This looks like a TV show, not the floor of the Senate.

If Hillary said this, which she has, some here would say that it's 'only words, not actions.'