At 07:04 AM 11/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
I know they can sue bars already and I'm sure they will sue liquor makers if they sponsor a party, in some way separate from a beer/liquor distributor.It seems that the ability to sue someone in the US is becoming a joke. The article below cites a shooting where two police officers are suing the gun seller and the gun manufacturer because the shooter had access to the guns after they were legally purchased by a third party. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/gunsuit021115.html If this lawsuit is successful, then we should also use this reasoning for other death and injury lawsuits. For example, we should be able to sue the bar and the liquor manufacturer in the case of a drunk leaving a bar and hitting someone. And we should be able to sue a baseball bat company and Wal-Mart because some gang member bought a baseball bat and beat someone to death with it. The list could go on and on. Recently a jury awarded a widow 1.3 million dollar US from a gun distributor because one of their guns was used to kill this woman's husband. As a side issue to this, I am not sure how subjective a six woman jury could be for an issue like this. It sounds like the widows attorney got to hand pick the jury. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20021115_170.html Please note that this posting and above articles are NOT about gun control. Gary L. Nunn
Here in PA it may get bad. The new governor pushed hard for his city to sue gun makers to recoup the 'cost' of guns 'flooding' the streets. I don't know why it failed, what happened to it. Maybe the gun makers said, 'You know all those free guns your police force gets........'
When a thief gets accidentally stuck in a pipe or falls through a skylight or gets locked in a garage for days on end, and can sue the business or home owner, and WIN, we truly have lost it.
There is no personal responsibility, no shame. Imagine a city wants to put up a billboard naming drunk drivers who killed someone. The ACLU would go crazy fighting it. Yet the Governor of Florida wanted a closed courtroom when his daughter was sentenced to keep cameras out, the TV stations were screaming about first amendment rights.
Kevin T.
Say you want a revolution?
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