unreconstructed1
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after reading about the latest shooting spree, I had a thought. We can all certainly agree that in this country you can sue a ham sandwich, much less a corporation, this strikes me as rather odd.
take a look at the number of mass shooting in any mall, workplace, or other commercial establishment and you will most likely find one similarity in at least 90 % of these events:
The establishment was a "Gun Free Zone".
most times, that fact is "conveniently" forgotten by the media coverage, but I found one article relating to last years West Roads Mall shooting which did bring up this fact. according to the article:
this brings me to the point of this thread.
given the fact that so many of these senseless tragedies could have been avoided had the business not had their signs posted, why has no one ever brought a lawsuit against one of these businesses?
Statistics show that even if one of us had to use our guns in self defense, we would undoubtedly go broke from all the civil suits related to that event, and more than one gun maker has been brought to civil suit after their products fell into the wrong hands; and yet these establishmentsrecklessly jeapordize the lives of their patrons, and never have to think twice about it. Something about that just isn't right to me.
after reading about the latest shooting spree, I had a thought. We can all certainly agree that in this country you can sue a ham sandwich, much less a corporation, this strikes me as rather odd.
take a look at the number of mass shooting in any mall, workplace, or other commercial establishment and you will most likely find one similarity in at least 90 % of these events:
The establishment was a "Gun Free Zone".
most times, that fact is "conveniently" forgotten by the media coverage, but I found one article relating to last years West Roads Mall shooting which did bring up this fact. according to the article:
(source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315563,00.html)There are plenty of cases every year where permit holders stop what would have been multiple victim shootings every year, but they rarely receive any news coverage. Take a case this year in Memphis, where WBIR-TV reported a gunman started "firing a pistol beside a busy city street" and was stopped by two permit holders before anyone was harmed.
this brings me to the point of this thread.
given the fact that so many of these senseless tragedies could have been avoided had the business not had their signs posted, why has no one ever brought a lawsuit against one of these businesses?
Statistics show that even if one of us had to use our guns in self defense, we would undoubtedly go broke from all the civil suits related to that event, and more than one gun maker has been brought to civil suit after their products fell into the wrong hands; and yet these establishmentsrecklessly jeapordize the lives of their patrons, and never have to think twice about it. Something about that just isn't right to me.