"Texas fraternity's gunfire leads to brief police standoff"

[Kevin]

As far as liability goes, we have insurance. As far as participating willingly in inherently risky endeavors, there's a thing called "assumption of the risk" which mostly protects organizations such as ours for the risky and ultimately harmful decisions some of our members make while at organized functions. I don't really care about all of that though.

In this case, what we know is that guns were fired and that an initiation ceremony was held. We also know that there were a few guns seized (which is routine) and that there were some low level citations. We know that there is an investigation ongoing and it's likely that's all we'll ever know.

I don't necessarily see a huge liability issue here absent other factors and of course, depending on the acreage of the land. My assumption, which I think is much safer than yours, is that young men in rural Texas firing guns are relatively harmless.