Random News and Notes 24 January

We start today’s RNN in Maryland where a jury found Walmart liable for an employees suicide.

On November 15, 2019, part-time maintenance worker Jacob Mace purchased a 20-gauge shotgun from his Walmart Supercenter in California, Maryland. Mace passed the mandatory NICS background check. Six days earlier, he had texted a coworker about feeling ‘broken’ and wanting to end it all. This prompted a talk with management who offered counseling but didn’t flag him for gun sales.

The jury ruled Walmart negligent for the sale, awarding $2.5 million in economic damages and $8 million in non-economic damages to his widow Kayla Brady. The larger amount may face state caps. Walmart plans to appeal, standing by its response to Mace’s crisis.

Ask yourself one question; had Mace bought a knife from the store and opened his wrists would the company be liable? The answer 100 times out of 100 is no. This verdict is stupid and bound to be reversed on appeal.

In a New York Post interview, Trump described a classified weapons system he called the ‘Discombobulator’. It supposedly neutralized Russian- and Chinese-supplied rockets at Maduro’s Caracas compound, enabling Delta Force to capture Nicolás Maduro and his wife without U.S. casualties.

Guards reported radar blackouts, intense sound waves causing nosebleeds and vomiting, matching directed-energy tech symptoms.

This is dumb. He shouldn’t have talked about it at all. Classified systems are classified for a reason.

This is a breaking story. ICE agents in Minneapolis shot and killed an armed man after he fought with them this morning.

It is unclear who the decedent was or why ICE was detaining him. There will be an update on this story at some point in the next day or two.