Merchants of death?
A lawsuit filed by a survivor of the Trolley Square shootings brings up a vexing question for retailers and guns rights advocates: Is a store responsible for the injury, havoc and sorrow that the sale of a gun might wreak in the community.
Carolyn Tuft wants big money from the parent company of Sportsman's FastCash on Redwood Road. She was badly wounded and her daughter, Kirsten Hinckley, was killed by Sulejman Talovic who was wielding a shotgun he bought at the pawn shop.
Westley Wayne H
ill, who sold Talovic the pistol-grip shotgun, has been sentenced to a year's probation and a $500 fine for failing to ask Talovic for the second form of identification required of legal aliens. Hill's plea bargain left it unclear whether the shotgun's pistol grip also required Talovic to be 21 or older.
In a debate on KSL-TV, Toni Marie Sutliff, of the Gun Violence Prevention Center, said a store's responsibilities in selling a firearm are hard to fix: "The tragedy is we don't have the right laws on the books that would have prevented this tragedy in the first place. So whether they're liable or not, we just don't seem to have the reasonable gun laws in place."
Gun rights advocates argue that had Talovic, who already owned a revolver, been forced to produce a second form of ID, or even undergo a waiting period, the tragedy four months later would have still unfolded.
Besides, if Talovic shopped on KSL.com's classifieds, (same web site as the above debate) he could have bought a pump or semi-auto shotgun pronto with no identification or background check.
Carolyn Tuft wants big money from the parent company of Sportsman's FastCash on Redwood Road. She was badly wounded and her daughter, Kirsten Hinckley, was killed by Sulejman Talovic who was wielding a shotgun he bought at the pawn shop.
Westley Wayne H
ill, who sold Talovic the pistol-grip shotgun, has been sentenced to a year's probation and a $500 fine for failing to ask Talovic for the second form of identification required of legal aliens. Hill's plea bargain left it unclear whether the shotgun's pistol grip also required Talovic to be 21 or older.In a debate on KSL-TV, Toni Marie Sutliff, of the Gun Violence Prevention Center, said a store's responsibilities in selling a firearm are hard to fix: "The tragedy is we don't have the right laws on the books that would have prevented this tragedy in the first place. So whether they're liable or not, we just don't seem to have the reasonable gun laws in place."
Gun rights advocates argue that had Talovic, who already owned a revolver, been forced to produce a second form of ID, or even undergo a waiting period, the tragedy four months later would have still unfolded.
Besides, if Talovic shopped on KSL.com's classifieds, (same web site as the above debate) he could have bought a pump or semi-auto shotgun pronto with no identification or background check.
1 Comments:
Why don't you check up on the comments from the nincompoop at the anti-gun club, whatever they're calling it before you parrot them?
The laws are on the books. They simply need to be enforced.
Everybody crying for the heads of the stupid clerk who didn't follow the laws to the letter, and for the stupid kid who sold the psycho the revolver are simply displacing their anger - the psycho is dead, he can't pay for their pain, so they want somebody else to.
Completely normal human grief process, also completely without logic.
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