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After dropping a gun at TJ Maxx, a customer shoots herself in the foot.#GunFail #ShootingWhileShopping

OPELIKA, Alabama. — A shopper at a TJ Maxx in east Alabama shot herself in the foot when her gun accidentally discharged, police said.

The gunfire happened when she dropped the gun Monday afternoon in the TJ Maxx at the Tiger Town shopping center in Opelika, The Opelika-Auburn News reported.

The 55-year-old woman was taken to a hospital. No other injuries were reported.

AP Via Fox 13, In Texas you need TWO signs. One to ban concealed guns one to ban open carry.

According to the story, only the woman was injured. If I was in the store when this happened, even if I wasn’t physically injured, I would sue. And I would win because TJ Maxx failed to take the simple step of putting up a sign saying no guns in the store. Here’s my logic:

The store has a duty of care to shoppers. By allowing people with guns to enter as customers, they are taking on a certain level of responsibility to protect them. If they fail, and someone is injured while in the store, the company can be held liable. How liable they . . . → Read More: What can we do about guns in stores? Sue the stores.

I’m a fan of the Sister’s in Law podcast, so I sent them a few questions via tweet. Some are based on the report of the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Since I’m a long-winded Vulcan I provided the background to my questions below.

Ordering COVID test results to be delayed &/or falsified is a crime, but the public can't see it.If the Trump admin used medical privacy laws to intentionally hide violations of public health laws, who prosecutes that? @JillWineBanks @COVIDOversighthttps://t.co/XM2nZxnAQm pic.twitter.com/OZl2QvlEuN

— Spocko (@spockosbrain) December 20, 2021

Meadows or others in the Trump campaign obstructed, delayed and possibly falsified COVID test reporting. They started at the Tulsa rally and did it later during Trump’s infection period. (Based on the reporting of Carol Leonnig’ & Jonathan Karl)1) Could you address how medical privacy laws have been used to hide the Trump admin’s violations of state & federal COVID test reporting laws?

Because of medical privacy laws, the media can’t see or prove how Trump, Meadows and/or campaign staff intimidated public health officials and what their response was.

Your show often drills down and focuses on specific laws broken and what cases a prosecutor will or . . . → Read More: What are the Trump admin’s COVID crimes?

When Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky put this photo of him posing with his family & their guns, my friend Jeff Tiedrich tweeted. “Every single one of these guns cost more than a Le Creuset pot.” So I asked some of my friends in the Gun Violence Prevention movement if they knew what all these guns were, how much they cost and the cost of the ammo to fill their magazines.

$84,000 of AR15s, Thompson & Uzi submachine guns shown.These donors gave @RepThomasMassie $60K @Masimo @SFGiants @CUNA @MarathonPetroCo @NAHBhome @airportscouncil @AtlasAirWW @UPS @ford @DoreenBrasseaux @ATT @lathamwatkins @PitneyBowesPls give equal amounts to #Oxford victims. pic.twitter.com/tvVCrcqqGU

— Spocko (@spockosbrain) December 6, 2021

I expect this photo will be discussed on the cable shows and late night comedy because this is the kind of sick trolling that the GOP engages in and is easy to talk about. “That’s disgusting! What a horrible person!” But that will be the end of it. So I wanted to know if there was anyone whose opinion Massie cared about he would listen to. So I looked at his donors. It’s filled with right wing PAC money from right wing donors & gun rights groups.

. . . → Read More: How Rep. Massie will raise money on the bodies of dead school kids