{"id":57347,"date":"2016-02-04T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57347"},"modified":"2016-01-30T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T01:31:08","slug":"57347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57347","title":{"rendered":"Liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This seems like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2016\/01\/15\/bill-allows-suits-over-gun-free-zone-incidents\/78862948\/\">sensible balancing of rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s already the law that a business owner owes his customers a duty of care (to make sure the floors aren\u2019t slippery, for example).\u00a0 If you, as the business owner, invite me to your place of business but prevent me from protecting myself therein, this proposed law says you have assumed an additional duty of care to protect me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You could fulfill the additional duty through armed guards, for example, but you cannot neglect the additional duty that you voluntarily assumed, leaving me unprotected.\u00a0 If you do neglect your additional duty and I get hurt when I could have defended myself, you should pay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the insurance company will have a say in setting your premiums . . . .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When liability insurance is allowed to account for\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>liability, we&#8217;ll see some sense come to that side of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Hint: \u00a0Joe&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This seems like a sensible balancing of rights. &nbsp; It\u2019s already the law that a business owner owes his customers a duty of care (to make sure the floors aren\u2019t slippery, for example).\u00a0 If you, as the business owner, invite me to your place of business but prevent me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57359,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57347\/revisions\/57359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}