First Political Post in Quite Some Time- Get Used to Them

So I support Sanders.   I should get that out of the way now.   Not only do I support Sanders, but I oppose Clinton.   Yes, she has experience, but experience is only as valuable as the lessons you learn from it and her history shows she only learns how to better manipulate and not that she was wrong.  See Iraq followed by Libya followed by Syria followed by her attempts to get us involved in the Ukraine as a prime example of her hubris.   This is not why I have decided to lay finger on keyboard however...

Sanders is being attacked right now for not supporting the Sandy Hook victim families from suing the gun makers and I agree with him in all regards.   First- you can't punish someone for legally selling something.  Second- you can't punish an industry for making a properly working item that was used in a criminal way by the purchaser.   Third- you can't use emotion to ignore existing law if we are a nation of laws.   Let me break it down further.


First- you can't punish someone for legally selling something.    Guns like those used in the Sandy Hook tragedy are legal regrettably.   Sanders did what he could to overturn that, but he failed and those guns are legal in America to own.   The gun maker therefore did nothing legally wrong in making, designing, or selling said weapon.

Second-    you can't punish an industry for making a properly working item that was used in a criminal way by the purchaser.   Do you hold Budweiser accountable for a drunk driver?   Do you hold the gas company that sold the driver fuel responsible?   Of course not, so why gun makers?  I know the argument the Sandy Hook families are using- that they marketed a military weapon for public use thus encouraging this type of behavior; that is a quite a stretch.   Budweiser pretty much advertises for you to get drunk on their product, but again it is the user of the product to blame of overindulgence and the aftermath of that indulgence.   Why are gun makers different?

Third- you can't use emotion to ignore existing law if we are a nation of laws.    I feel for these families, I really do.   I would probably react the exact same way if I were one of them, but this is the very reason victims don't sit on juries- laws are not determined valid or not  based on emotional response.   What feels good to do could create a set of circumstances where we once again find the path to Hell was paved in good intent.

Sanders voted against the law allowing guns like the AR-15 to be sold and has said repeatedly he would vote against those guns again and again.   He wants them off the streets as much as anyone else does, but he also has respect for our nation and our system of government.   One cannot browbeat another into their way.  If you hate a law, work on changing it.  

The Constitution has a method for any and all laws to be altered or removed.   It is difficult and it was designed to be to protect our nation from temporary emotional whims, but it can be done.   You will need allies to do it, so you probably shouldn't falsely attack someone on your side before you succeed in your campaign.   Sanders agrees with you and has the D- from the NRA to prove it.   It is laughable to pretend  he is somehow a gun lover laughing over the bodies of dead children and shame on the media for propping up that impression.