"Landmark" decision: Sports retailer cannot be sued for sale of gun used in mass shooting

[The Purge]

The Texas Supreme Court is on a roll. Yesterday I wrote about a groundbreaking decision made by the court that Facebook can be held liable for sex traffickers who use the social media platform to recruit and prey on children. Today there is a “landmark” decision to be heralded from the court. A retail sports chain cannot be held responsible for selling a gun used in a massing shooting.

The mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in 2017 resulted in the deaths of 25 innocent churchgoers and 20 injured. A madman entered the church during Sunday morning services and opened fire. Those murdered included a pregnant woman. He turned the gun on himself after that, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. This horrific event is Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting. The attention turned to the mass shooter, a 26-year-old former airman, and how he came to have possession of his weapon, a Model 8500 Ruger AR-556, fitted with a 30-round magazine. The former airman had a troubled military record – he served a year in confinement after an assault conviction in 2012 and was released from the USAF in 2014 with a bad conduct discharge. He lived in Comal County, outside of San Antonio. Apparently, this developed from a domestic dispute and his mother-in-law was a member of the church.

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The writer left out some salient facts - the shooter took his own life because a good guy with a gun chased him down and confronted him....but I fully expect SCOTUS to get this and throw it in the wastebasket where they have thrown our Constitution and Bill of Rights!!!

 

[jillian]

At a some point, real judges will get the issue

 

[JoeMoma]

This "Land Mark" ruling was simply common sense. The buyer passed the background check because the air force had not added the dishonorable discharge info to the national database.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Explain IN DETAIL why the seller of a firearm should be responsible for the actions of the buyer but the seller of a car is not responsible for the actions of a buyer of the car?

 

[whitehall]

Too bad Ford and Chevy can't be sued for vehicular homicide or bank robberies. It's a Texas decision so don't count on it to impact the radicals who are coming after your legally owned guns.

 

[2aguy]

Too bad Ford and Chevy can't be sued for vehicular homicide or bank robberies. It's a Texas decision so don't count on it to impact the radicals who are coming after your legally owned guns.

This is what these other companies don't understand.....if the democrats can create the precedent of suing gun makers and gun stores for the actions of people who buy their products.....do they really think the democrats are going to stop with gun makers?

These other companies better tell their highly paid lobbyists to tell their politicians on the pay roll to fight any attempt to repeal the Lawful Commerce in Arms act....because they won't stop with gun makers...

 

[LuckyDuck]

So, for the left, if a retailer sells a customer a gun and the person shoots someone in a crime, then by the exact same reason, if a retailer sells a knife set to a customer, the retailer should be held accountable for the murders the criminal committed with those knives, after all, MOST MURDERS are actually committed with knives. Also, if a car dealer sells a car to a customer and the customer uses it to deliberately run into a crowd, killing a bunch of people, the auto retailer should be held responsible. This could trickle on down to bats, screwdrivers, hammers and chainsaws.

 

[whitehall]

Blame anybody but the guy who pulls the trigger and you get a medal from democrat administrations.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

At a some point, real judges will get the issue

You mean like Alito and Kavanaugh?

 

[task0778]

It's hard to see how a gun seller or manufacturer should be held legally responsible for the actions of a person who misuses a gun and shoots somebody. I highly doubt the SCOTUS would allow such a law to be upheld, unless of course the court gets expanded to 15 justices and the new ones are all Far Left lunatics. And don't think that can't happen if enough democrats in the Senate will vote to eliminate the filibuster and allow themselves the ability to do as they please. Suppose a few more democrats get elected to the Senate next year and even without Manchin and Sinema they have enough votes to pass everything they want.

Re the ruling by the Texas Supreme Court, I don't think the SCOTUS will overturn that. My guess is, they wouldn't even hear the case.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

At a some point, real judges will get the issue

REAL judges?

Have you ever heard of a subsequent intervening cause?

What's next? Dealerships held liable for selling the car to the guy who runs over a bunch of pedestrians?

 

[JoeBlow]

The Texas Supreme Court is on a roll. Yesterday I wrote about a groundbreaking decision made by the court that Facebook can be held liable for sex traffickers who use the social media platform to recruit and prey on children. Today there is a “landmark” decision to be heralded from the court. A retail sports chain cannot be held responsible for selling a gun used in a massing shooting.

The mass shooting at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in 2017 resulted in the deaths of 25 innocent churchgoers and 20 injured. A madman entered the church during Sunday morning services and opened fire. Those murdered included a pregnant woman. He turned the gun on himself after that, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. This horrific event is Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting. The attention turned to the mass shooter, a 26-year-old former airman, and how he came to have possession of his weapon, a Model 8500 Ruger AR-556, fitted with a 30-round magazine. The former airman had a troubled military record – he served a year in confinement after an assault conviction in 2012 and was released from the USAF in 2014 with a bad conduct discharge. He lived in Comal County, outside of San Antonio. Apparently, this developed from a domestic dispute and his mother-in-law was a member of the church.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...

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The writer left out some salient facts - the shooter took his own life because a good guy with a gun chased him down and confronted him....but I fully expect SCOTUS to get this and throw it in the wastebasket where they have thrown our Constitution and Bill of Rights!!!

The Air Force is largely at fault here. They don't even get a slap on the wrist.

 

[2aguy]

So, for the left, if a retailer sells a customer a gun and the person shoots someone in a crime, then by the exact same reason, if a retailer sells a knife set to a customer, the retailer should be held accountable for the murders the criminal committed with those knives, after all, MOST MURDERS are actually committed with knives. Also, if a car dealer sells a car to a customer and the customer uses it to deliberately run into a crowd, killing a bunch of people, the auto retailer should be held responsible. This could trickle on down to bats, screwdrivers, hammers and chainsaws.

Also, if a car dealer sells a car to a customer and the customer uses it to deliberately run into a crowd, killing a bunch of people, the auto retailer should be held responsible.

Why just "deliberate?" Fatal car accidents kill far more people than guns do, so every single victim of a car "accident," should be able to sue each and every car maker, parts supplier, car dealership....all the way down the line....since a car is just a machine made up of parts.........every single company that supplied the parts to make up a car are also liable to be sued..........right?

The number of people who are responsible for a single car "accident" would be in the thousands if not more...........imagine the salivating by lawyers just thinking about that....

 

[K9Buck]

The Air Force is largely at fault here. They don't even get a slap on the wrist.

The Air Force is too busy teaching transgender ideology to have time to report stuff like that.