Putting a Sympathetic Face on Extortion

Weathers had a diagnosis of mental illness, but she had never been identified as a threat to herself or others by a judge or ordered to an extended mental hospital stay - which meant she could pass the background check for her gun. [More]

In other words, she had never been afforded due process, but somehow it's the gun store's responsibility to intervene based on what a frantic stranger is alleging.  If they hadn't sold, how do they know they wouldn't be sued for discrimination, especially with gay wedding cake judgments destroying Christian bakeries? And faced with well-funded Brady lawyers bringing action, the small business owner was coerced into settling.

No doubt it was a heart-wrenching situation, for years, but the tragic combination of love, denial and choice meant the parents knowingly left themselves vulnerable to someone who could not be trusted with a knife or a bat, let alone a gun.

[Via Roger J]