Sanders tries to bolster position against gun law he previously supported

[riversedge]

Source: cnn






By David Wright and Eric Bradner, CNN

Updated 12:55 PM ET, Thu January 28, 2016 | Video Source: CNN


Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders will co-sponsor a bill to repeal legal protections for the firearm industry that he'd supported a decade ago, taking another step to undo the political damage of that vote and smooth over his relationship with gun

According to a release from the Brady Campaign, Sanders will co-sponsor the repeal of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which protects gun manufacturers in lawsuits involving shootings. Sanders had voted in favor of the protections while in the Senate and has up to this point resisted reversing course on the issue.

The Brady Campaign says that Sanders decided to support the legislation "hours after meeting with Brady activists," and that his staff also met with victims of gun violence.

For Sanders, it's all an effort to undo the damage of a 2005 vote for a bill that protected gun manufacturers from lawsuits when their firearms are used in crimes. Then-New York Sen. Hillary Clinton opposed that bill, and has repeatedly pointed to Sanders' vote as evidence he was aligned with the National Rifle Association........



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Golly gee--Sanders is evolving.

[hrmjustin]

1. Sanders was shamed into this.

This is a political flip flop not principled.

[randys1]

3. Lets be honest, there is no Senator Sanders to filibuster for the good of YOU AND ME

if he doesnt take that position, then, on guns, considering his state.

If we are going to hold him to a higher position than anyone else, fine, but note that, please.

I respect you specifically and most of the Clinton people here, but we have to be fair.

[hrmjustin]

6. The Democratic Senator Leahy from VT voted the opposite way of him so he could have

Voted against gun manufacturers.

But i appreciate you like him and will not push you on this.

[randys1]

8. At the same time? Was he reelected at the same time, I dont know the years...?

[hrmjustin]

10. 2005. Sanders was up for his fist senzte run in vt in 2006.

Leahy never had much opposition.

[randys1]

11. If his support for gun mfgs or whatever he supported was NOT necessary based on the

electorate, then I wonder why.

He comes off as a hippie turned politician to me, all the ones I know dont care for guns much.

[hrmjustin]

12. What bothers me is that same year he voted not to give immunity to other

business manufacturers.

[uhnope]

2. One thing that makes me tired of gun issue re Sanders & Clinton

is that in reality no president is going to make any substantial difference in the gun issue in the USA.
Does anyone really think a Pres. Hilary Clinton is going to do anything that will substantially affect the gun bloat of the USA? They are naive if so. Maybe she--or Sanders--would pass some law making some kind of gun harder to get. But it won't change anything, really.

This is just slimy, low-level politicking to push knee-jerk buttons.

[lunamagica]

16. I thought the "defeatist attitude" was part of the Clinton camp.

But giving up on the gun issue is OK...

[kjones]

18. No we can't?

"...in reality"

When does this "reality" rule kick in? Just when it shields Sanders?

[KamaAina]

4. Clinton tries to bolster position for marriage equality she previously opposed

[riversedge]

13. ah, too bad you made up that headline.

[KamaAina]

14. Somebody had to. There's no way the M$M goes there.

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. So he will co-sponsor a bill that will not be taken up by the Senate or even attempted by the house?

in order to pretend that he did not approve corporate welfare for Gun Manufacturing corporations.

Sorry, I don't buy it.

This is an election year stunt to white wash over a monstrous mistake.
It pisses me off when Republicans do this to create a campaign odd. It makes him no different from a Republican.

[Bad Dog]

7. He could have just changed his mind, ten years is a long time.

Wouldn't you rather have a pragmatic politician who changed his mind than an ideologue who sticks to a rigid set of principles regardless of how ridiculous or out of date they are?

[kjones]

19. "Wouldn't you rather have a pragmatic politician"

Yup! Vote Hillary!

[Bad Dog]

20. Better than an ideologue like Bush.

Or Trump or Cruz, he was on Channel 4 News tonight, a real religious nut. I'd not heard him before, he's scary.

[frizzled]

9. Bernie is to guns as Hillary is to Iraq - so what killed more people?

nt

[ciaobaby]

15. Hillary Hypocrisy

So when she supported her husband's Don't ask Don't Tell piece of shameful bigotry and when she spoke out so eloquently in support of "Traditional Marriage" you don't care to revisit her flip flopping - care to explain ?

[lunamagica]

17. Pandering

[SunSeeker]

21. Glad to see Hillary pulling Sanders to the left.

[riversedge]

25. :-) Well said.

[crim son]

22. It's the politically correct stance.

Maybe he changed his mind. Whatever, his position on gun control was one of the very few problems I had with Sanders and I am pleased to hear this news.

[lancer78]

23. He should not be punished for this vote.

This law, if it had passed, would have been ruled unconstitutional. If I sell someone a car, should I be charged if the person I sold it to uses it in a kidnapping? And before anyone says a gun only has the purpose of killing things, I, being of Norwegian heritage, beg to differ.

[Bad Dog]

24. You're talking rape and pillage.

If the Vikings had had guns they could have done even more of that.

[lancer78]

26. Nope

talking about the biathlon.