From the article: According to laws in every state in the U.S., Walmart has a duty to protect its customers from violent crime while they’re on store property.

From the article: According to laws in every state in the U.S., Walmart has a duty to protect its customers from violent crime while they’re on store property. Under an area of the law known as premise liability, victims and their lawyers have argued in hundreds of lawsuits that Walmart failed to provide enough security.