2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Tell me three things Hillary will do as president to improve my life as a PERSON that Bernie has not [View all]BainsBane
(53,027 posts)Seems I didn't post that one: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/early-childhood-education/
This is her general issues page. You can also get to pre-K through there, as well as all the other issues. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
Repealing the immunity law would give families of gun violence the opportunity to bring suit for companies enabling illegal use of weapons. With immunity, gun corporations have no incentive to make their products safer or to prevent them from falling in the hands of illegal arms sellers. Think about the auto industry, how much safer cars have become because of law suits and government regulation. The gun industry is immune form that. They therefore have no incentive to implement trigger locks or fingerprint recognition technology, the sort of thing that could prevent a toddler from being able to fire and kill someone with a parent's gun.
Companies only make products safer when it becomes financially necessary, and law suits are the means by which that financial cost is felt.
Also Sanders, started in 1993, promised to never vote for waiting periods for buying guns. He has kept that promise. That impairs the ability to do thorough background checks (how one of the recent mass shooters got a gun despite a felony conviction.) He supports instant background checks. Instant. That means someone who is angry, full of rage, wants to kill his partner or shoot up a school or a workplace, would have no cooling off period before he gets his weapon. Waiting periods are fine for abortion, yet not for guns?