The shooter fired from outside the property. Parking lot lights just gave him light to shoot by (if it was night time). Security guards are not often effective in situations like this, but they are always expensive; do you want to pay $10 for a Big Mac? (I’ve never seen a security guard at a restaurant, no matter how priced, unless they served drinks and expected trouble with drunk customers. Bars have bouncers, but never have someone out in the parking lot and armed for a gun battle.) Cameras aren’t much of a deterrent for crimes like this, even when they are focused on the right spot – but would it even be legal for McD’s to place cameras looking at other businesses?

Were they smoking while shooting or being shot? There is another target.

Oh and yes the city and the cops, especially if the cops have the “to protect and to serve” printed on their cars!

How about the sing manufacture since it may have been providing a lighted target as well.

How about somebody suing the attorney that brought such a stupid case into an over crowded court room in the first place! ??

Aw.

We have lots and lots of deep-pockets cases like this at Overlawyered, and this isn’t even the most egregious one. There was another Florida case where an apartment resident who successfully blamed her apartment complex for a carjacking, even though she renewed her lease, and presumably chose for herself that she would rather have cheaper rent and less security.

Yikes! I’d hate to go on his restaurant crawler.

Of course, the attempt to make the criminal acts of third parties a mere matter of “premises liability” for which the property owner is liable is ABSURD. As Western society continues its slide into Third-World style barbarism, its bottom feeders will take advantage of situations like this (ever-increasing) in order to profit. They craftily cast blame on “big business” (and more often, little business) as the real criminal, while the gangster in the do-rag is nothing more than an innocent part of the pretty scenery. If the duty of care extends to the social pathologies of New America, there would be a corresponding right to DEAL with such pathologies, would there not? Say, keeping troublemakers away from the property. But the same lawyer class vulturing in after McDonald’s would swoop in yet faster to sue the store for “insensitive” attempts to keep the premises safe and orderly. The ACLU would cry discrimination against youth, class, race, you name it. And once again, responsible actors are faced with forked roads where every branch – including backing up down the road – leads to legal trouble. A legal system shot through with that is no system at all.