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Q: Is Donald Trump forcing individuals to sign a liability waiver for the Tulsa rally?No. President Trump is not. The venue, operators of the venue and the campaign is. This is not different from any other event, concerts, wrestling match, baseball game, etc. Read the back of your ticket or the website you get your tickets from. By purchasing the tickets you are agreeing to the same waiver.

If I read into the question, it seems most likely that you are asking this question relative to a recreation, sports or fitness facility and their use of liability waivers.Liability waivers allow two parties to more clearly define and accept responsibility. They are necessary for more hazardous types of businesses to exist.Why are liability waivers legal?Say accidents occurred due to hazardous equipment, negligent staff, or other fault of the facility, wouldn't the better thing be to protect the customer and fix whatever is dangerous about the facility?Facilities that offer recreational equipment face the potential for “strict liability”. Absolute or strict liability is a standard of responsibility that holds the business to negligence regardless of fault.A Liability Waiver does not absolve the business from liability, but provides a more reasonable standard than “strict” or “absolute” liability.With the use of a waiver, the customer acknowledges that the activity in which they are participating is dangerous and comes with inherent risk. It does not prevent the customer from seeking damages, but changes the level of responsibility for each party involved.A waiver does not absolve a business from proper training of staff or a staff person’s gross negligence. It also does not absolve them from properly maintaining their equipment.Some thoughts that come to mind following the question’s intent “Why are Liability Waivers Legal”…Availability of Insurance: Would (affordable) insurance be available for some of the more hazardous activities (say businesses) that we enjoy if they were not allowed to require a waiver from their customers?Lack of Risk Sharing/Transfer: If (affordable) insurance were not available for these types of businesses, what would happen to the presence those businesses?Without Insurance: If a waiver was illegal, and these businesses did choose to accept the risk associated with “strict liability”, what type of individual/organization would own them?What would be the business owner’s method for mitigating/transfer/avoidance the high risk of a lawsuit and judgement?What method of collection would injured parties have in that environment?What would the use of those facilities cost consumers?The ability to use a Liability Waiver allows patrons to accept the inherent risk of the hazardous activity while also allowing the businesses to exist and offer their services at more reasonable cost.Though state laws vary, even with waivers in use, a participant is provided a financial backdrop in the event they are not afforded reasonable care.I am not a lawyer and will see this question through an insurance lens. Asking those in the legal field to respond would provide a broader perspective.Some top notch Quoran’s for a legal point of view include: Jennifer Ellis, Cliff Gilley and Dana H. Shultz.Good question. Thanks for the A2A.

ProsMuch like sex education leads to safer sex and reduced pregnancies, it stands to reason that gun education would lead to safer gun handling and fewer accidents.ConsMuch like sex education gets the panties of some ignorant conservative individuals in a bunch, gun education is likely to draw panic and prophecies of impending doom from some ignorant liberal individuals. Like the anti-sex folks, they will probably be the minority, but they will be a very vocal and outspoken minority.The other con is that is that of liability. Basic classroom only stuff can be done without a real gun or ammo, but if you include any actual gun handling, there is a chance (however small) of an accident. I think this would require liability waivers for anyone in attendance. However, I will also add that organizations like the Boy Scouts have been doing this for decades without issue.