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To: DavesM who wrote (326494)12/6/2002 9:40:26 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
It's hardly a social service....

But if you have a weapon and you neighbor's kid gets killed with it while your kid was showing it to him, can you be sued?
Should you go to jail for negligent homicide? Would you leave the neighborhood to protect yourself from your neighbor?
If it were my kid that died you would.....



To: DavesM who wrote (326494)12/7/2002 2:13:54 AM
From: Selectric II  Respond to of 769670
 
If you call the police and they get there too late, can you sue them?

No, because you're already dead.

(Was that intended to be a trick question?)



To: DavesM who wrote (326494)12/7/2002 9:27:06 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
The Supreme Court has ruled that police DO NOT have the duty to protect individuals.

Couldn't even if they tried. Even in the most repressive police states there is still crime.

If you call the police and they get there too late, can you sue them?


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