25th May, 2024: Three Little Pigs.
It’s Saturday …
It’s officially Saturday.
And, frankly?
That means I’m going to be watching “73 Yards”, the next episode of Doctor Who, tonight.
It sounds interesting!
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I’m assuming you keep your eyes on the news?
If you do, you probably remember the Uvalde school shooting, a couple of years ago: the shooting where police officers on the scene didn’t do anything to stop the shooter for around an hour after getting to the site.
I can’t imagine the parents of children killed that day feeling good about that.
Neither can they, I think.
It seems, though, that the families are to sue;
- Meta, the owners of Instagram.
- Activision, makers of the game, Call of Duty.
- Rifle makers, Daniel Defense.
They hold all three companies responsible, in part, for the actions of the shooter.
And — according to the BBC News report on the matter — for grooming the shooter, and others like him, into thinking a gun was a good solution to a problem.
I don’t know if that would work, though.
I seem to recall that the British press made a huge fuss — in the days and weeks following the Hungerford Massacre — and blamed the shooter’s actions on the film, First Blood: citing it as a motivating factor in the shooters actions.
Despite any evidence or investigation to prove that.
I know similar claims were made about Dungeons and Dragons, at around the same time: again, with little evidence or investigation.
The Hungerford Massacre victims did not sue: I suspect because they had no legal grounds to do so.
I wish the Ulvade families well with their case.
But?
However laudable the attempt, I don’t think the case will prove successful.
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