NRA Victory Hailed as Defeat

Jeff Tyberg's blog is saying that what the NRA is a calling a "historic victory" on gun lawsuit liability is really a defeat.

We at Obey Out believe in the Second Amendment. We too would like to have seen a couple of these provisions taken out of this bill.

However, what Jeff Tyberg does not understand is that in Washington, DC, you can't make it a practice to snatch "defeat from the jaws of victory." Had the House sent this bill back to committee, it would not have become the law of the land this year. U.S. gun manufacturers would have been left open to an unlimited number of liability lawsuits for the acts committed by criminals. And who knows if we could get enough votes to get this bill back to the Senate floor during an election year.

The bottom line is, S.397 had to be passed last week as is or our U.S. gun manufacturers would have been driven out of business. That's bad for the Second Amendment and bad for our economy.