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Wal-Mart, guns, alcohol, ammo, domestic violence, shooting, Mississippi – this story certainly isn’t a shocker. Nor is it the courts went with Wal-Mart on this one. This shooter is an idiot, too. “I meant to aim a little higher.” Really? You are firing a gun at someone, what could possibly go wrong? No, Wal-Mart didn’t pull the trigger. But, they knew the ammo went to someone it wasn’t supposed to. And that someone pulled a trigger and killed somebody. How can say McDonald’s get sued over hot coffee and lose and Wal-Mart can sell a bullet to a minor that kills someone and walk away unscathed? The power of the free smiley face sticker!
“In a dissent, Justice Jess Dickinson said he was alarmed the majority’s conclusion found that a minor’s reckless use of a handgun was unforeseeable.”
Excuse me, what is a high court judge doing embracing this plantiff’s lawyers palabra? How could any reasonable person believe selling a government-regulated and taxed item to a qualified purchaser end up with an underage drunk idiot shooting his roommate over a fan?
Mississippi or not, that crazy scenario is not a normally foreseeable condition; it is a Darwinian failure.
The employee admitted he knew it was going to a minor. What would happen in a similar scenario if an employee sold beer, knowing it was going to a minor, and the minor ended up drunk driving and killing someone? Bars are held liable all the time in instances like that. I don’t know, at the end of the day, we have someone shot and killed that shouldn’t be again. Hopefully, the shooter is locked away for a good amount of time. He’s the biggest idiot in this story.
“Bullet” vs. ammunition. Is there any journalist out there who understands the difference between a “bullet” and “ammunition?
kinda like the difference between “fender” and “automoble”?
Form over substance?
“Moore told a different version of how he purchased the ammunition. Moore said he told the employee he didn’t have his identification and asked if a friend could buy the ammunition, which he said the clerk allowed.”
I think if it sounds like a load of crap it is a load of crap. And we want to consider a 20 year old a minor and compare that age to a 12 year old? Really?
This young man knew what he was doing and why he was doing it. He didn’t mean to aim high, he meant to hit the guy on the other side of the door. What he didn’t think about was the consequences of his actions.
Why is 21 the age of majority for purchasing ammo, when the US Govt gives it to soldiers younger than that? Also, where did this young man get the alcohol and were they also sued?