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by Jim Beaux
Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:28 am
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Gun Free Zones Damages
Replies: 27
Views: 6238

Re: Gun Free Zones Damages

twomillenium wrote:
Jusme wrote:
AJSully421 wrote:
Beiruty wrote:Would not fly as the business is not liable for 3rd parties destructive acts.
Sure, right now... but if the law changes, and now says that you are liable if you post signs... then you are liable if you post signs.

Liability insurance rates would go up for any location that posted signs, because it would result in greater potential risk of loss to the insurance company... so signs would come down at all but the most venomously anti-gun places.

It becomes a slippery slope due to the fact that the left wants to do the same thing to gun manufacturers. The only way I could see something like this working were if it was a location that a person must enter by law, but those would usually be government facilities. If a person has a choice not to enter a posted business, then it would be hard to hold them liable for someone else's actions. So far I have not run across a 30.06 posted business, that I don't have another option as to where to take my business.
What I think would be a better option would be as a discrimination issue whereby someone with an LTC, was being discriminated against, just like a licensed beautician would not be allowed to carry scissors, or a chef not being able to carry their knife. Either of those things could be used as a defensive weapon and they would obviously be trained to use them, so why only licensed handgun carriers?JMHO
:iagree: One has a choice.
There have been successful lawsuits against carnivals and theme parks in which people chose to ride the rides that cause them injuries....and remember the McDonalds hot coffee judgements.

The point is you can sue for almost anything & let the legal process determine liability.
by Jim Beaux
Tue Jun 28, 2016 11:15 am
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Gun Free Zones Damages
Replies: 27
Views: 6238

Re: Gun Free Zones Damages

Beiruty wrote:
Beiruty wrote:Would not fly as the business is not liable for 3rd parties destructive acts.
You can sue if there is not enough security measures and if they deny you the right for self defense. It is a theory and I am not sure why such case is not in courts yet.
It's not a theory & there have been successful suits for damages.
A Federal judge in Brooklyn upheld yesterday a jury award of $2.5 million to Connie Francis, the singer, to compensate for her rape in a [Howard Johnson] motel on Nov. 8. 1974.
http://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/21/archi ... .html?_r=0

Another against same hotel chain for $1.75 million
Failed to provide reasonable care for her safety
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid= ... 02,2938447

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