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Sheldon Whitehouse: “I wonder what the response would be like if corporations in consumer contracts down in the fine print, in tricks and…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2013
I wonder what the response would be like if corporations in consumer contracts down in the fine print, in tricks and traps, instead of taking away consumer rights, particularly consumers' rights protected by the Seventh Amendment, were, say, taking away gun rights protected by the Second Amendment.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse questions the disparity in reactions to consumer rights versus gun rights.

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