[chessplayer]

Doesn't boggle the mind in the least. Not nowadays.

[TheThirdRuffian]

The theater refused to allow its patrons to defend themselves by putting up signs that made it illegal for CHL holders to be armed.

They need to be punished financially for such a stupid decision.

[lepton]

Given the “no firearms” signs, it wasn’t inevitable, but clearly an increased likelihood.

[Organic Panic]

The people of Aurora should ride this judge out on a rail. Judges like this are the ones ruining this country. They wave their scepters and rule worse than Kings. But... Since this sign was up, he may have a point.

[Sparklite]

I was boggled until I read about the sign.

I am now unboggled. When the owner explicitly refuses to allow customers in his establishment to protect themselves, then he is shouldering the responsibility in their stead, and he failed to protect them.

[Benito Cereno]

The California courts dealt with this issue 30 years ago after the McDonald's shooting in San Diego. Their holding sounds just as relevant to this case: Under the circumstances here, it cannot be reasonably urged that had McDonald's provided an unarmed, uniformed licensed security guard, the massacre would have been prevented or its extent diminished. The record defies such a conclusion. Rather, it paints a portrait of a demented, mentally unbalanced man, bent on murder and self-destruction, who viewed the nearby McDonald's restaurant with his binoculars from his apartment, kissed his wife goodbye and stated he was going "hunting for humans." Huberty set out to kill the most people possible and went to the restaurant, unconcerned with detection, dressed in camouflage fatigue pants and heavily armed. Upon entry into the restaurant, he immediately began firing his weapons indiscriminately at everything and everyone in sight, reloading his weapons periodically and walking up and down the aisles slaughtering those he found still alive. His only apparent motive was killing. He made no effort to rob the restaurant, made no demands for money, and made no effort to take hostages. His indiscriminate slaughter of human beings — the worst mass killing by a single assailant in recent American history — only ended when he believed all were dead and he was felled by a police sharpshooter.

On this record, we conclude plaintiffs have failed to establish any triable issue that there was a causal nexus between McDonald's nonfeasance, if any, and the resulting injuries. Any reasonable protective measure such as security cameras, alarms and unarmed security guards, might have deterred ordinary criminal conduct because of the potential of identification and capture, but could not reasonably be expected to deter or hinder a maniacal, suicidal assailant unconcerned with his own safety, bent on committing mass murder.

[Old North State]

So where could you go, or what could you do that would not have the foreseeable consequence of your being shot by a mad man?
Naval base? Army base? School? Hospital Church? Airport? Home? Mall? Restaurant? Hotel? Highway?
All of these places have been the scenes of senseless murders. If every conceivable venue is susceptible to the actions of lunatics how can a theater be singled out?

[Swordmaker]

Judge was appointed by Obama. . .

From the Freeper addenda to the new ICD-10:

321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.

[CodeToad]

One of my favorite memes I created.

[gitmo]

Great. Now there will be metal detectors on every auditorium and church for insurance purposes.

[UCANSEE2]

“Noting “the grim history of mass shootings and mass killings that have occurred in more recent times,” U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson ruled that Cinemark — owner of the Century Aurora 16 theater — could have predicted that movie patrons might be targeted for an attack.”

Based on that concept and ruling, President Obama, who has all the money and all the staff, the NSA, DHS,and the FBI, should have predicted this, and given CINEMARK a ‘heads up’.

All lawsuits should be directed against Obama, before anyone can direct a lawsuit against CINEMARK.

[TigersEye]

The liberal logic here is inescapable. Since crimes like this have occurred then this type of crime is foreseeable. If the crime is foreseeable then owners of private property are liable. In order to eliminate that liability private property should be eliminated. The crimes will continue but since all property will be gov. property no one will be liable for it. Problem solved!

[Carriage Hill]

[wildbill]

This ruling could easily cause extreme disruption in our society by making any business owner potentially liable for not providing absolute security in any public place where a large number of people (targets) are gathered together.

[upchuck]

Who is more mentally deranged, the shooter or Judge Jackson?

[lightman]

“Gun Free Zones” might become such a legal/insurance liability that they disappear.

Hallelujah!

[98ZJ USMC]

Huh. Judge Liberal Activist pushing the gun control endzone closer....

Huh.

[spodefly]

Perhaps ... the shooter went out of his way to go to that specific theater (over closer theaters) because it prohibited firearms on the premises, both serving as enticement to the madman and depriving patrons of a defense.

[theBuckwheat]

Will the judge also consider that Colorado law allows building owners to force patrons to waive their unalienable right of self defense by prohibiting them from possession of their otherwise-legal firearms?

[Vendome]

Yes and they should prepare for asteroid strikes as well...

[delchiante]

One would expect mass shootings to have lawsuits...against any and everybody..

Funny, sandy hook has none...