Lawyers, guns and money

"Just Put Down That Law Suit, Pardner, and No One Gets Hurt."

Greg Palast, author of best-seller, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," writes in The Guardian about why Congress felt compelled to act to protect gun makers from lawsuits.

Among his observations:

First, the score. Gunshot deaths in the US are way down - to only 88 a day. Around 87,000 lucky Americans were treated for bullet wounds last year; 32,436 unlucky ones died, including a dozen policemen by their own weapons. For Americans, America remains more deadly than Iraq.