Buffalo Shooting Survivors Sue Social Media & Gun Companies::Survivors and a family member of a victim of the mass shooting at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York are suing social media platforms, gun companies, and the shooter’s parents.
I’m okay with that.
Car companies only implemented safety features after lawsuits came. Safety rose and fatalities dropped.
Are you suggesting this was caused by an accident due to insufficient safety devices?
This one? Not sure. Others? Definitely.
There’s studies showing that the gun industry doesn’t evolve like other markets due to laws giving them immunity. Normally the industry would add safety features like built in trigger locks ( fingerprint sensors or NFC ring that’s required to fire) but without the motivation they’re not adding them.
It’s because those are terrible ideas. You’d trust your life to a fingerprint censor or nfc nonsense? I sure as fuck wouldn’t
It seems kinda nuts. But if everyone sued everyone every time there was a mass shooting, things might actually start happening to minimize their frequency.
Or judges will just start throwing out the cases.
Probably that.
It’s the people vs the shooter. And let’s be honest, eventually the people of the USA is at least as guilty of this and all the other crimes like this as the actual shooter.
Yah. I can agree with that. If the shooter had their own licensed gun, the survivors could (should) sue the state government for giving the guy a gun licence.
That’s a reaction to an act rather than a solution to a problem.
Whats the solution to stop the shootings even from licensed gun owners?
Start suing for this and see mental health screenings pop up everywhere. Especially if you’re suing gun shops directly. But the social media part means that us lemmings need to keep an eye on our platform for things like this. Least we garner the gaze of The Eye. If this becomes a precedent that is.
According to the lawsuits, YouTube and Reddit “transformed and addicted” Gendron and prepared him for the attack on Tops market.
I’d like to see what they’re actually claiming.
I really hate these kind of lawsuits, while yes what happened fucking sucks I feel like this always leads to repeal section 230 bullshit. I feel like we need to realize that having all eggs in one basket for social media is bad and decentralization is better. Secondly if section 230 was repealed the extremism excuse could be used to shut down anarchist mastodon instances
