The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act led to the dismissal of lawsuits that were fully supported by civil justice law, but were dismissed because this act provides special protections to the gun industry that no other industry or no other people in America enjoy. It does so by saying that gun commerce is more important per se than freedom from gun violence. We should be allowed to sue companies that make products designed to kill.If we as citizens want to make a big noise about gun control (and we should), it makes sense to focus that noise on changing one flawed law rather than instituting a host of unspecified new ones. Do away with that special protection for gun makers and give people the power to use the courts to try to enact the kind of change Washington will not be able to.
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