Uvalde victims' families sue Instagram, Call of Duty, and AR-15 manufacturer

This seems like a stretch. Maybe they'll get go-away money. I appreciated the one father telling the Texas Rep. to shut the fuck up about Uvalde and not act like he gives a shit.

[quote] If Instagram can prevent people from posting pictures of their private parts, they can prevent people from posting pictures of an AR-15

AbosoFUCKINGlutely!

Hypocrytical moralistic assholes.

Showing the nude body is horrible, but showing weapons of mass murder is perfectly fine.

Cunts.

The 2 million dollar settlement from the city seems low given how badly those cops fucked up.

I notice Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz are missing from the list.

Wow why A mess this world is becoming. Wait till AI starts targeting the kids personally. That will make the Mexican cartels look like children.

R3 It should have been more money. I think Meta will settle right quickly just to make them go away.

The families should sue themselves and each other for constantly voting/re-voting in the GOP assholes who hate them.

[quote] Showing the nude body is horrible, but showing weapons of mass murder is perfectly fine.

I'm sorry to say this but this absolutely 100% captures the majority American psyche.

A penis? OMG! NO.

Guns, bullets, multiple shooting victims. All part of an American day's work.

Suing videogames is absurd.

With the NRA and gun lobby firmly in control of the rethugs, you cannot sue gun manufacturers. This Supreme Court won't allow it.

Suing Instagram is ridiculous.

I agree, suing a company for a video game is dumb. I also vaguely recall the creators of Doom being sued many years after a shooting. Maybe, it was Columbine.

They cannot win against the video game. That's ridiculous. Who bought the kids the game?

Grifters gonna grift.

Agree with suing the AR-15 manufacturer, but Instagram is a bit of a stretch

“Grifters gonna grift” - oh, please. These are parents whose children were mowed down in their classrooms while police offers stood around outside with their thumbs up their asses. Let them sue organization with deep pockets who may have played a role in facilitating their children’s deaths.

Lawsuits like this aren’t always undertaken with the goal of maximizing payout, but with the goal of drawing publicity to things like gun manufacturer’s partnerships with social media organizations. A kid whose online activity suggests an inclination toward mass shooting can be pushed via algorithm toward gun-promoting content. There’s nothing to restrict content featuring guns on social media, because weapons are for sale and there is a profit incentive for pushing content toward people who are likely to buy guns. This includes people who could also (via algorithm) be identified as demographically inclined toward greater acts of violence, stupidity, or suicide with weapons.

There is clearly no governmental appetite for reigning in the ever-lucrative gun industry, and the right to own guns with the goal of being able to raise a militia has been interpreted as the right to own individual arsenals of guns and treat them like playthings. Going after social media advertising tactics that push gun-related content to a vulnerable audiences could potentially lead to reform in what organizations like Meta are allowed to advertise. We have restrictions on advertising tobacco products, alcohol ads are tagged with “always drink responsibly” and when I hear an ad for a casino it generally includes the number for a gambling addiction hotline. We recognize that some things shouldn’t be advertised, or advertised with some cautions. You won’t see ads for guns on TV (although and TV and movies portray guns in a way that minimizes the damage they cause), but social media is the Wild West when it comes to all of this. I would like to see some law passed after the Uvalde shooting to limit the normalization of guns on social media.

I’m not anti-gun, but making them out to be playthings is one of the massive ills in our society.

Suing

They should have sued the closet manufacturer. since the folks who should have been doing shit hid in them.

[quote]“Grifters gonna grift” - oh, please. These are parents whose children were mowed down in their classrooms while police offers stood around outside with their thumbs up their asses. Let them sue organization with deep pockets who may have played a role in facilitating their children’s deaths.

Agreed R14 (and with everything else you've said) and I thought something similar about R12's moronic dismissive post. I am anti-gun though.

I saw some of the uncensored images of the dead from Uvalde that escaped onto social media and seeing any of those horrific images of your child - well, I couldn't imagine how a parent would cope. If I remember correctly, one of the survivors who witnessed everything said something about his friend and that "her head was just gone" and I saw the image. It was gone. Like a smashed melon dropped from a great height. These military grade semi-automatic machine guns need to go - look at the damage they do. They're designed to do one thing only and that's kill multiple human beings at great speed.

[quot] Agree with suing the AR-15 manufacturer

One of the various anti gun groups is probably behind this. Such suits are routinely and quickly dismissed. The Second Amendment speaks plainly.

R17 advocates for as many dead children as possible. They're just cannon fodder. And death by gunshot fatality is the leading cause of death for American children already.

But yeah, the Second Amendment speaks plainly...

But doesn't it say for the purpose of a militia?

That 2 million is a joke. They should have gotten 100 million. Then Uvalde would have had to get the money from the state of Texas. Was it a gun loving judge who gave that pathetic sum?

One of the greatest examples of governmental ineptitude and tragedy on a local level in the country's history. The few teachers gave their lives for those kids and an entire police force was like Gee did he stop shooting yet?

2 million total or 2 million for each death? The fuck?

AR 15s are meant for war not personal protection. Shows how corrupt our Supreme Court is. Including the Dems.

It looks like for the group. If it's individually it is poorly written. Still for wrongful death too little. The shitty Texas rethug government should pay through the nose.

Sue the gun maker? Why? It's legal to own one. If somebody stabs somebody to death you're going to sue the knife maker? It's those who make it legal to sell and own one who are responsible

let the parents of those dead kids beat all the cops who stood by and did nothing. let them beat them all to death. that'll feel better than any amount of money.

[quote]These are parents whose children were mowed down in their classrooms while police offers stood around outside with their thumbs up their asses. Let them sue organization with deep pockets who may have played a role in facilitating their children’s deaths.

Yes, and those organizations are the city, the police, perhpas the school. Videogames and Instagram are a pure grift in the hopes of settling "without admitting liability" nothing more, nothing less.

They ought to sue each do-nothing "officer" and the UPD into bankruptcy. Then, do the same to the killer's family. Then, put the killer's family in jail, like the Crumbley parents up in Michigan. Make sure to run the killer's family into generational poverty trying to defend themselves in court.

I'd then suggest taking some of the money made and smearing the Republican pols in that state who only tweet "Thoughts and prayers!" yet get on their knees and felliate every AR-15 that smokes.

We feed our kids (boys in particular) with copious amounts of adderol and Ritalin.

Parent them through murder fetish video games and YouTube videos

Leave guns around

What could go wrong?

Don't be so rough on the killer Salvador Ramos . He couldn't help being a hot-blooded LatinX. We want millions more.

R7 again. All of you chiming in with your entire chest, your "Oh, poor things! Give them gun mfgs money!" "Get that Meta $$$$" "Sue the NRA!" Like these:

[quote]families of victims Friday filed multiple state lawsuits in California and Texas against social media giant Meta, Activision — the maker of the popular video game "Call of Duty" — and Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the AR-15 which the teen gunman used in the shooting.

[quote]The second lawsuit, against Daniel Defense, was filed in Uvalde District Court.

[quote]Attorneys claim that Meta and Activision "enabled and emboldened firearm manufacturers' efforts to expand the market for their weapons by granting unprecedented, direct and 24/7 access to children."

[quote]I appreciated the one father telling the Texas Rep. to shut the fuck up about Uvalde and not act like he gives a shit.

[quote]Suing videogames is absurd. With the NRA and gun lobby firmly in control of the rethugs, you cannot sue gun manufacturers. This Supreme Court won't allow it. Suing Instagram is ridiculous.

[quote]That 2 million is a joke. They should have gotten 100 million. Then Uvalde would have had to get the money from the state of Texas. Was it a gun loving judge who gave that pathetic sum?

[quote]One of the greatest examples of governmental ineptitude and tragedy on a local level in the country's history. The few teachers gave their lives for those kids and an entire police force was like Gee did he stop shooting yet?

[quote]Sue the gun maker? Why? It's legal to own one. If somebody stabs somebody to death you're going to sue the knife maker? It's those who make it legal to sell and own one who are responsible

[quote]let the parents of those dead kids beat all the cops who stood by and did nothing. let them beat them all to death. that'll feel better than any amount of money.

[quote]I'd then suggest taking some of the money made and smearing the Republican pols in that state who only tweet "Thoughts and prayers!" yet get on their knees and felliate every AR-15 that smokes.

I give you this, without further comment:

[quote] I give you this, without further comment:

uhoh

[quote]But doesn't it say for the purpose of a militia?

Yes, indeed, R19; in fact, "a well-regulated militia."

[quote][bold]A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.[/bold]

Not shocked the mom was also a p.o.s. psycho R29.