How sickeningly ironic is it that the Mental Health Association president comments about handguns when the woman killed herself with a shotgun???

I thin you are dead on when you credit this lawsuit to greedy parents and lawyers. The probably feel they are "due" to be compensated for all their years of mental anguish for having a defective daughter. Wally World has deep pockets, so why not blame them?

I've always heard that ignorance of the law is no defense. Apparently, neither is adherence to the law.

I was reporting on that over at SayUncle earlier, it's another liability lawsuit issue bullshit case. The thing I've got to say is this... how much do you want to bet that Walmart will settle out of court, this helping to create a precidence for future cases? It's similar to Bushmaster's suit recently... it's a completely legal product, manufactured and sold legally, but when used illegally, people blame the product and not the person using it.

Except that Bushmaster claimed they settled because they, their insurance company, etc ran out of money to pay the lawyers. Wal-Mart probably has some of the deepest pockets in the world and could affort to tie the thing up in the courts for years. At least I hope they fight it...

Words failed me

actually, jay, what's even funnier than the handgun-bit is the ceo of the "national mental health association" saying "...it's not right, in our minds..."

ha!

Good catch Bingley!

Sure, the Wal-Mart clerks should have just looked at the women, decided she was a loon, and refused the sale. Apparently that's all they had to go on, since any disqualifying information was legally restricted.

And then of course, in the minds of Mr. Faenza, it would have been perfectly all right.