“This is a day in America when the little guy lost out to powerful special interests.”
– Michael Barnes, President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence
That is the lead to this article by Howard Nemerov. You know Barnes is full of crap just from his association with the Brady bunch. But I didn’t know the other details outlined in that great article. Nemeroy also says this about Barnes:
He is a Washington insider, having been a congressman from 1979-1987. He is a lawyer who has an association with the law firm of Hogan & Hartson.
He thens goes on to tell how much money lawyers have been donating to our politicians and how those politicians are a “Who’s Who” of those that voted against the bill to outlaw frivolous lawsuits against firearms manufactures.
If you like well documented, hard facts kind of reading go read the rest of it.
A bit of a side note–I haven’t crowed about this bill passing the Senate for various reasons. Stephanie sent me this link which articulates some of the reasons not to be overjoyed about passage of this law. I agree with everything in the article but if I were to vote on the bill I probably “hold my nose” and vote “Yes”. The reality is the Federal government exercises way more power than it was granted by the Constitution. But failure to exercise that power for good does not lessen the evils that excess of power brings. That excess of power must be reduced in a manner which reduces evil as much or more than the good that can be done with that power. Failure to accept this good does not accomplish that.
Heya Joe, thanks for the link. Last week I was looking for an old link that I thought I saw here about the total amount of $$$ spent by either side of the gun debat during the fight over the sunsetting of the AWB, but I never found it. Do you know where I could find something on that?
Sorry, but I don’t think I have ever seen those numbers. http://news.google.com probably would be the best search engine for that. But that’s probably still a long shot.
Oh, another search engine to try would be http://www.technorati.com.