Shielding gun manufacturers obscene...?

you're goddam right it is...

The House of Representatives, in callow disregard of cause and effect in the nation's harrowing gun carnage, is about to [vote on] what is expected to be final approval of a bill to grant assault-proof protection from damage suits to the gun industry, from manufacturers to dealers.

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With all the critical issues on the national agenda, from the Iraq war to hurricane recovery, the House's eagerness is obscene as the gun lobby herds lawmakers from both parties behind a bill to deny victimized families their fair day in court. The bill goes beyond barring lawsuits to shielding black-market dealers from administrative loss of their licenses without near impossible burdens of proof.

President Bush talked favorably about the assault weapons ban as a candidate but was notoriously mute when the Republican Congress let the ban expire last year. Surely he would not compound the nation's gun scourge by signing the immunity bill.

oh, SURELY NOT...! just like he SURELY WOULD sign the bill containing provisions against torturing prisoners... bush is gonna do what's right - for those who are paying his bills plus whatever else it takes to maintain and consolidate maximum power in the hands of the executive...

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