NJ.com reports
What's your opinion? Should the owner of the show be held responsible? Does jail time seem fair.An owner of a Western theme park where a cowboy actor was accidentally shot in the head nearly six years ago has filed an appeal in the case, effectively delaying the start of his trial for at least a year, a Sussex County prosecutor said.
The appeal challenges a ruling issued in October by Superior Court Judge N. Peter Conforti, sitting in Newton, who upheld a state law prohibiting the transfer of firearms by an adult who does not have a state firearms carrying permit to an unsupervised juvenile.Scott Harris, 43, playing the part of frontier lawman Wyatt Earp, was shot on July 7, 2006, during a skit at the theme park by a 17-year-old cowboy actor who accidentally loaded his .22-caliber handgun with live bullets instead of blanks. Harris was left partially paralyzed.
My idea is that jail is excessive for accidents except for repeat offenders. Loss of gun rights is always the appropriate punishment, plus in some cases, payment for damages.
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When I was a teenager, I worked for a grocery store. The manager had me run the box crusher, even though I was too young, according to the law. Nothing went wrong, but if there had been an accident, there would have been some kind of penalty. The same penalty is appropriate here. The employer used an underage employee, and an accident occurred. The fact that a gun was involved should be beside the point.
ReplyDelete"The same penalty is appropriate here. The employer used an underage employee, and an accident occurred. The fact that a gun was involved should be beside the point."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the ruling--oh, I'm sorry, you're not a judge or even a lawyer so your assertion that the guy should pay a fine and keep his gunz rightz is, um, an assertion.
If you got your hand crushed in a box crusher then your employer would probably be sued/fined for a LOT of money, unless of course your parents didn't give a shit what happened.
I said that the real offense here was using underage employees. That's my opinion about this case. You, of course, would never have an opinion about anything not directly related to your job, right?
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