Comments on: Gun dealers’ liability for crimes https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/gun-dealers-liability-for-crimes/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:36:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Moe Levine https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/gun-dealers-liability-for-crimes/comment-page-1/#comment-1780 Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:36:13 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2923#comment-1780 Walter wonders, Why not sue the teacher who taught the crook how to read the book that taught him how to use a gun?

Walter, its really pretty simple, legally and morally. The teacher doesn’t know/have reason to know what the reader will do with the skill. Morally, it comes straight from the Bible–having a duty to prevent injury to our fellow humans

]]> By: Walter E. Wallis https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/gun-dealers-liability-for-crimes/comment-page-1/#comment-1779 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:17:52 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2923#comment-1779 Why not sue the teacher who taught the crook how to read the book that taught him how to use a gun?

]]> By: Moe Levine https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/12/gun-dealers-liability-for-crimes/comment-page-1/#comment-1778 Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:35:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2923#comment-1778 Given that a very conservative federal court of appeals, not a state court, held that there can be aiding and abetting liability for selling a book on how to use a gun to commit a murder, I am hard pressed to see your point.

If I walk into a gun store asking to buy a firearm so that I can rob a bank, who has problems with liability? No one, to my knowledge.

What difference does it make that the knowledge of my plan is circumstantial, as long as the gun dealer has a pretty good reason to know what I am about?

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