The relatives of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting, which ended the lives of 19 children and two teachers two years ago, This Friday they sued Meta, the video game company Activision and a manufacturer of semi-automatic weapons for weapons promotion.
The “wrongful death” lawsuit was filed Friday by the families’ attorney, Josh Koskoff, two years after the A young man – identified as Salvador Ramos – barely of age, broke into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, southern United States, armed with an assault rifle.
The young man murdered 19 children between 9 and 10 years old and two teachers aged 44 and 48 years old., before being killed by law enforcement, 77 minutes later. Salvador Ramos also injured 17 other people, most of them of Latin American origin.
The young man murdered 19 children between 9 and 10 years old and two teachers aged 44 and 48,
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The complaint against Meta and Activision was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, while the case against manufacturer Daniel Defense was filed in Uvalde District Court.
Activision is the company responsible for the popular war video game ‘Call of Duty’.
The attorney who filed these lawsuits also represented the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut and won a lawsuit in 2022 against gun manufacturer Remington.
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In this new lawsuit, Koskoff argues that Daniel Defense uses the Instagram platform – belonging to Meta – and the video games created by Activision to condition young people, like the Uvalde attacker, to see “weapons as a tool to solve their problems.”
“There is a direct link between the conduct of these companies and the Uvalde shooting (…) This three-headed monster deliberately exposed (the attacker) to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as a tool to solve his problems and trained him to use it,” Koskoff explained.
Families of the victims of the attack in Uvalde.
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The note further detailed that “on Instagram, the shooter was courted through explicit and aggressive marketing,” while Daniel Defense “used Instagram to praise the illegal and murderous use of its weapons.”
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Technology not only allows gun companies to connect with consumers, but also “promotes and normalizes violence” to an audience of “adolescents in difficulty,” the lawyer highlighted in a statement.
An Activision spokeswoman expressed her “sympathies” with those affected in a statement released by The New York Times, but noted that Millions of people around the world enjoy video games without committing “horrendous acts.”
Tribute to the victims of the shooting in Uvalde.
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School shootings have become commonplace in a country where about a third of adults own a firearm and regulations for purchasing even powerful military-style rifles are lax.
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