Skull Pilot
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Pretty sure I would get over it.You just said you made a dozen calls not just one.The family did not ask the shop to make a diagnosis. It was a warning. The shop did not heed the warning. It is no different than a warning given to any other facility that was ignored.Williams Sonoma sold me lethal weapons. Sharpest knives I have ever had. Shouldn't they have made sure I planned on cutting steak with my weapons and was not planning to cut my husband? Shouldn't Williams Sonoma gotten to know me better before trusting me with knives?
This is not a consumer issue. This is a mental health issue.
I have guns. So did she. My guns have never attacked anyone. Neither did hers. An inanimate object is not to blame here. The unbalanced woman and her family are to blame, for doing nothing. What if she had bought the gun five years before she used it? Gun shop still at fault? Or had her mental illness progressed? That family substituted a shop owner for a licensed mental health provider and it ended badly for them.
I'll ask you the same question
I make a dozen anonymous phone calls claiming to be your father and tell people not to let you in their businesses because you are dangerous
you're just fine with those businessmen refusing to serve you based on that one anonymous phone call?
If I was a business person and someone called me to warn me I wouldnt let your ass in my business either.
Your loss I would have been a paying customer
the fact is the shop owner did everything he was required to do he broke no law he was not responsible for what the person did after she left his store
No one claimed he broke a law. The claim was that he was negligent and thats why he lost the suit. You dont have to be a criminal in order to lose a suit.
he didn't lose the suit since it never went to trial
he settled because most likely his insurance company told him to
and he was not negligent since he followed every regulation he was bound to follow