Uvalde Families Sue Activision, Meta, Gun Maker

Uvalde Families Sue Activision, Meta, Gun Maker
[May 24, 2024, 6:47 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Activision Publishing is one of the targets of lawsuits filed today on behalf of Uvalde school shooting victims, reports The Washington Post. Filed by the lawyer who won a record settlement for Sandy Hook families, the suits target the Call of Duty publisher along with Instagram parent Meta and gun manufacturer Daniel Defense for how firearms are marketed on social media and in videogames. Word is: "The complaints contend the three companies are responsible for 'grooming' a generation of 'socially vulnerable' young men radicalized to live out violent video game fantasies in the real world with easily accessible weapons of war." Here's more:

One of those men, the legal team argues, was Robb Elementary shooter Salvador Ramos. The lawsuits allege Meta and Activision "knowingly exposed the Shooter to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as the solution to his problems, and trained him to use it.”

“Over the last 15 years, two of America’s largest technology companies — Defendants Activision and Meta — have partnered with the firearms industry in a scheme that makes the Joe Camel campaign look laughably harmless, even quaint,” the complaint states.

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Re: Uvalde Families Sue Activision, Meta, Gun Maker
May 25, 2024, 08:42

MrCharm42

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Re: Uvalde Families Sue Activision, Meta, Gun Maker May 25, 2024, 08:42

May 25, 2024, 08:42

MrCharm42

guyoninterwebs wrote on May 25, 2024, 07:52:
For those unaware, it was revealed that last year Remington signed a product placement deal "as part of a marketing plan to reach young customers" in Modern Warfare 2:
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/remington-gun-call-of-duty-video-game-93059a66

This new lawsuit seems to be building upon that story from last year.

Glad you brought in this detail, though I don't see how a specific brand on a video game rifle makes it more likely to cause a mass murder.

2 other points:
1) According to FBI statistics, about 400 people/year in the US are killed with long rifles. Not "AR-style", but all of them. This is far less than knives, and about the same as baseball bats.
2) 100 years ago was the most deadly school massacre in US history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster). Should they have sued the dynamite manufacturers? Perhaps the alarm clock manufacturers?

The perps are some combination of evil and crazy. It is extremely difficult to lock up the mentally ill - as a society, we've decided that's the right thing. We thus live with the consequences. Can we have more laws/better enforcement to minimize this? Sure. Should we remove all things that crazy/evil people might misuse? No.

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