Opinion by Paul Waldman: Democratic governors show the fight their voters crave
allows the state attorney general, local prosecutors, and any “person who has suffered harm” from gun violence to bring civil suits against manufacturers and sellers of guns if they can show the businesses violated California’s expansive state laws on how guns are made, marketed and sold.The law was modeled in part on Texas’ S. B. 8, the “vigilante” abortion law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get an abortion.
Democrats in New York did something similar: After their long-standing gun regulation was struck down by the Supreme Court, they passed restricting concealed carry. They didn’t say “Why bother, because this might get struck down too.” They moved ahead.
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