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Originally Posted by speeder

Anyone working in the hospitality industry who serves alcohol should presumably know about those laws. They are very unambiguous and they are enforced when someone leaves a bar and kills someone, though it’s usually w a car. The police are very good at tracking a drunk’s last steps, it usually takes them a matter of hours.

This story doesn’t surprise me at all, happens all the time.

She would have been "TABC certified" to work as a bartender in TX, so yeah, she knew. The fact that he had a knife and a gun while drunk (even in TX) tells me that she didn't do enough. If someone was drunk and brandishing a big knife and gun and I was in the bar, I'd tell management really quickly, and I'd expect management to get the police to come get the guy.

People go into bars and get "drunk". I'd bet that >95% of people that leave a bar are >.08. The number that are silly, stumbling drunk are probably 10-20%. It's not good, but it is what it is. Still, there's a difference between someone that's drunk and someone that's stumbling drunk AND talking about putting someone in their place AND brandishing multiple weapons.

I think the article that I saw said that the bartender were good friends with the couple. I don't think she needs to be prosecuted or sued (I have seen that she's being sued by the victims' families. I suspect she already feels like hell.