Gun manufacturers have special protection, specific legislation at the federal level singling them out to not be liable.
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You're implying that the worst thing that Republicans have done in over a century is to obstruct. Seems to me that they've done much worse.
And yet Republicans have never ever held a supermajority in the past 106 years since cloture was added to Senate rules.
Exactly. There's basically two parties right now: the one running around setting things on fire, and the one beholden to corporate interests that won't let them use a fire extinguisher or a water hose.
Is starting fires worse than letting an already started fire continue to burn? Yes. Are the currently burning fires going to be extinguished either way? No.
You've already long missed the boat for keeping fascism out of France if the sitting head of state is calling for measures like these.
This is why people on the left are so exasperated with centrists - they're so much more willing to take heavy-handed actions against democratic issues like "hey maybe police shouldn't be executing people" and are so much more reticent to even speak out against extremist views that have gained a solid foothold in France like "the progressive Islamisation of our country is calling into question the survival of our civilisation".
For some reason, they see the latter as much more "valuable discussion" than the former.
Once things start stabilizing from the latest influx, I feel like outreach like that should be the next phase
This is a pretty optimistic view. Inflation is (mostly) a one way street. The rate at which prices are rising might have slowed down, but the prices themselves aren't going to go back down. That damage is already done. Come next year, I don't think people are going to be thinking "I'm paying an extra dollar for a big mac than I was 4 years ago, but at least it didn't go up another dollar this year too"