Would be quite easy for Clinton to propose a sweeping anti-gun bill that she knows is doomed to fail in Congress, and then say "Oh well, I tried. Blame Congress."
What would you say if that exact thing happened in a Sanders presidency?
Difference is that I don't expect Sanders to give up on policies if they fail the first time. I fully expect Clinton to raise certain issues once, maybe twice, purely as token efforts.
By analogy, when someone goes nuts and drives their car into a crowd and kills people, should the victims' families be allowed to sue the automaker?
If a car is made unsafe and a COMBINATION of manufacturing unsafety and driver error results in death they would have an extremely strong case in a civil case against the manufacturer.
I'm not sure how a gun could be made "unsafer" than a gun, by definition, normally is. Sure, if a firearm manufacturer made a semi-automatic weapon completely lacking a safety and somebody tripped while walking and hit the trigger and gunned down people, then yes that is a liability. Though more of a product safety liability than a gun-law liability.
Moreover, mass shootings hardly constitute "operator error".
Look, I think most people here know my stance on gun control and mass shootings. I am hardly an NRA apologist. I would love to see far less firearms in our society. But going after manufacturers for product misuse is just ridiculous, and it gives the pro-gun lobby a strawman to use when they claim that liberals are crazy about guns and just lashing out wherever they can to try and stifle the 2nd Amendment.
The suit after Sandy Hook is an example of that. I understand that the parents filed it because they're angry and they're frustrated by the utter lack of action and they're looking for away to do something, ANYTHING to address the problem. But that is not the right way to go about it.
Nobody mentioned that he's an ex-NRA lobbyist?
As of about a month ago. Certainly nothing stopping him from registering as a lobbyist with them again. I don't think this is because he had some sea change in his opinions on gun control.
The gun show loophole is hard to address.
Umm, no it's not? If I sell my car to somebody privately, I have to transfer the title to them as well. If I sell a house, I have to transfer the deed.
Register all firearms (they already have serial numbers), associate a "title" with the gun, and make it so that when a firearm title is transferred, it triggers a background search.
I realize there will be pushback on the registration portion because "OH NOES BIG BROTHER CATALOGING GUNS" but seriously, fuck those tards.