Mike the Usurper wrote:

No other American industry, no other branch of commerce would have this kind of special protection from civil law. Not drug makers, hospitals, doctors, farmers, or food processors. Not knife makers, car companies, tobacco companies, brewers, distillers or firecracker makers. Just the gun industry

And this morning, it passed.

If I buy a baseball bat from a sporting goods store and beat someone to death with it, can the victim's family sue the sporting goods store for civil liability? I don't think this law is the end of the world.

RE: CBS News | The Gun Lobby's Dead Aim | August 1, 2005�21:30:16