Alphecca: On to the President

October 20, 2005

On to the President

Congress gave the gun lobby its top legislative priority Thursday, passing a bill that would protect the firearms industry from massive lawsuits brought by crime victims. The White House says

President Bush will sign it into law.

The House voted 283-144 to send the bill to the president after supporters, led by the National Rifle Association, proclaimed it vital to protect the industry from being bankrupted by huge jury awards. Opponents, waging a tough battle against growing public support for the legislation, called it proof of the gun lobby's power over the Republican-controlled Congress.

"This legislation will make the unregulated gun industry the most pampered industry in America," said Kristen Rand, director of the Violence Policy Center.

Gosh, Kristen, I thought greedy trial lawyers were the most pampered industry...

Posted by Jeff Soyer at October 20, 2005 12:24 PM

Comments

One must truly have one's head stuck someplace dark and stinky to even think, let alone utter (on the record, no less) the phrase "unregulated gun industry".

Absolutely amazing. Probably the only more regulated 'industry' is big pharma.

Posted by: Tom at October 20, 2005 12:50 PM

Yah, "unregulated" is not exactly the real world. I still occasionally chuckle over the picture of NYC Mayor B, in support of a law regulating toy guns to make them less similar to real ones, holding up a lime-green transludent water pistol as typical of the "too real looking" toys that needed to have orange muzzles...

Posted by: John Anderson at October 20, 2005 01:02 PM

yeah, "unregulated" thppppt!

Posted by: ben at October 20, 2005 02:42 PM

I believe it is called auto-proctoscopy

Posted by: tomWright at October 20, 2005 06:23 PM

So who were the 144 SOBs that voted against the bill? I want names!!!!!

I think I can start the list off myself without doing any research:

Schumer
Feinstein
Clinton

Posted by: bwh at October 20, 2005 08:29 PM

"So who were the 144 SOBs that voted against the bill? I want names!!!!!"

Olver, John - Mass ??th district HR

Posted by: Peet at October 21, 2005 06:34 AM

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On to the President

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