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In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]thucythucy
(8,069 posts)as is your right.
And I'll continue to point out that your arguments in this thread are mutually contradictory.
On the one hand, the law was passed to protect the poor defenseless gun industry from being bankrupted by frivolous lawsuits entirely without merit, because the legal system is somehow skewed in favor of those bringing such lawsuits. This is of course a favorite right wing talking point, why we need "tort reform" to protect the corporate sector from conniving lawyers and get-rich-quick scam artist plaintiffs.
On the other hand the Brady organization (and presumably the states attorneys general bringing such suits) are to be lambasted for sucking innocent survivors into losing their shirts due to the dire consequences that await people filing and losing suits that have no merit.
I think the reasoning behind this almost unprecedented legal cut out for the gun industry is obvious, and is stated in the OP. Industry lobbyists and their political enablers saw the writing on the wall. They recognized that the suits might indeed be successful if they ever came before a judge and jury, and so scrambled to enact this patch. And no efforts at diversion or what-about-ism do anything to weaken that argument.