Mom Sues Wal-Mart Over Daughter's Suicide

ap ^ | Tue Dec 21, 4:43 PM ET | By LIZ AUSTIN, Associated Press Writer

[satchmodog9]

I'm sure this is Walmarts fault(sarcasm). If you are worth more than ten dollars you are a target in this country.

[Welsh Rabbit]

It'll be tough for these grifting parents to get any money from this. Walmart fights every case against them aggressively and they never settle.

[CindyDawg]

She should sue the government for approving her application. Oh wait. Businesses can be sued but the feds can't be?

[satchmodog9]

Funny how that works.

[SE Mom]

You beat me to it...was about to post this but kept reading it over looking for just one hint of common sense...none to be found.

[af_vet_1981]

She would not be suing Walmart unless it had the money. Unless they broke the law in selling her the weapon throw the case out of court and fine the mother for a frivolous lawsuit.

[SolutionsOnly]

What's she suing for? The shtogun worked like it was supposed to, didn't it?

Sorry, I have no patience for this lawsuit nonsense!

[birbear]

Cases like this make my head hurt.

(First of all it's not Wal Mart's fault).

I'm a schizophrenic. I don't own any fire arms. Part of meme would hope that the screening system would prevent me from owning fire arms (as a safety precaution to my self, as I'm more a danger to myself than I am to society.)

However, I really don't want my medical records being handed out to a bunch of different organizations. Especially my prescription records.

But if it would stop an incident where somebody could get harmed, I guess I could understand the reasoning.

[Mase]

"I'm sure this is Walmarts fault(sarcasm). If you are worth more than ten dollars you are a target in this country."


Sad but true. To be successful in business these days not only must you buy low and sell high, you must avoid getting sued in between.

[Khurkris]

Mommas don't let your children grow up to be scum sucking, bottom feeding, swamp scum eating lawyers...

[Bahbah]

"The tragedies that families face when people are killed is terrible. And frankly I wish handguns were not so available in this country"

This guy should get his facts straight. She wasn't killed. She committed suicide. And it was a shotgun, not a handgun. He also can't conjugate the verb "to be."

[CindyDawg]

You can't keep someone from killing their self if they are determined unless you provide 24/7 observation. If someone wants a gun they will get it.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1305330/posts

[Texas Eagle]

Her mother, Lavern Bracy, is suing the world's biggest store chain for $25 million, saying clerks should have known about her daughter's illness or done more to find out.

Hell, I'm happy when a Wal-Mart clerk knows where the hell the dog food is this week.

[HairOfTheDog]

Always sad to see grieving parents fighting bad causes in their grief. I have to hope they've got no case.

[yooper]

"Would-be buyers must fill out a form that asks about mental health. On Stewart's form, a box that asked whether she had been involuntarily committed to an institution or declared dangerously mentally ill by a judge was incorrectly marked no. (Her mother's attorneys question whether Stewart filled out the form herself or a clerk did it for her.)"

I have bought four guns from Wal-Mart in the last three years, one rifle and three shotguns. I don't know what the Wal-Mart employees at this particular store did, but I can tell you that the guns that I bought were sold by Wal-Mart employees to me by every letter of the law, and them some. They filled out the forms and made double sure that every I was dotted and every T crossed.

The .22 I bought for my son was the first one, and I purchased it right after the new purchase laws went into effect. The law as I understand it states that if my background check does not come back in a certain amount of time, the store must sell me the gun. I believe that the time stated was three days, and four days later (Christmas Eve) I went to the Wal-Mart to collect my son's Christmas present. BUT, seems that the check system hadn't ironed out all of the bugs, and my background check hadn't yet been cleared. Wal-Mart STILL refused to let me have the gun, citing internal policy way above the mandates of the law, and my boy ultimately got his rifle on January third.

I don't care much for Wal-Mart, but it's employees in my above described case went way beyond the letter of the law in denying me my gun.

I have come to the regrettable conclusion that this mother is willing to trade her daughter's death for cold cash.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If it's Wal-Mart's fault the girl blew her brains out, then it would it have been the parents' fault if their daughter had murdered a pregnant woman and ripped the child from her body.

Or would that have been Wal-Mart's fault, too?