A Novel Legal Strategy for Mass Shooting Victims’ Families

针对大规模枪击事件受害者家属的新颖法律策略

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2024-06-18

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As mass shootings plague the United States, victims’ families continue to search for accountability. To that end, a pair of lawsuits by the families of victims of the Uvalde school shooting will try a new tactic. J. David Goodman, the Houston bureau chief for The Times, discusses the unusual targets of the lawsuits and profiles the lawyers behind them.

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  • As mass shootings continue to plague the United States, the families of victims continue to search for accountability.

  • Now a pair of lawsuits by the families of victims of the Uvalde school shooting are trying a new tactic.

  • The suits target a popular video game, a gun manufacturer and Instagram accusing them of helping to groom and equip the teenage gunman who committed the massacre.

  • Today, my colleague David Goodman on the lawsuits and the lawyer behind them.

  • It's Tuesday, June 18.

  • So, David, after a shooting, people are always looking around for who to blame.

  • They ask questions about how did this person get a gun?

  • Could anything have been done to prevent this?

  • Should anything have been done to prevent this?

  • And now we've got these two new lawsuits that are filed by the families of victims in the Uvalde shooting, and they're pointing the finger in a pretty interesting direction.

  • So tell me about those.

  • You know, after all of these shootings, what we have is people from the right and from the left sort of going to their different camps.