Posted on 09/16/2014 4:02:32 PM PDT by South40
DENVER (Reuters) - The parents of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shooting rampage filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against four companies that sold the accused gunman James Holmes ammunition, body armor and other gear used in the massacre.
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the parents of Jessica Ghawi, say the retailers including BulkAmmo.com, which sold Holmes more than 4,300 rounds of ammunition, were negligent when they sold the items to "a patently dangerous homicidal man."
Ghawi, a 24-year-old aspiring sports broadcaster, was one of 12 people killed in July 2012 when Holmes opened fire inside a suburban Denver theater during a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."
"As gunowners, parents, and citizens of this country, we hope that our lawsuit will spare other families the tragedy that we have gone through after the death of our beautiful daughter," Sandy Phillips said in a statement.
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A legal product sold legally that performs as expected is not just cause for a lawsuit. The counter suit should be swiftly pressed forward. The distributor can only be found innocent...even if it take a trip to SCOTUS.
You are right. Like the fallacy of the “Good Muslim”, the “Good Lawyer” is getting harder and harder to find.
So they keep saying BulkAmmo.com, but who are the other three? Also, as far as I know Holmes did not have body armor, he had a tactical vest. Even if it was body armor, how did that help facilitate the crime? The cops didn't show until it was over and the moviegoers were not allowed to be armed.
They’re still talking about ‘body armor’ I see.
Any way, the defendants included the leasing company and the company that financed the lease to the power company.
I would not have been overly friendly to the plaintiff or her representation if the driver had a valid license and the car passed state inspection...
“a patently dangerous homicidal man.”
Are they suing the State of Colorado for allowing this guy to roam freely?
No. The oil companies have much deeper pockets.
Yep, and it is going to get worse now that Bozo is packing the benches
No, this isn’t grasping at straws. This is them embracing evil.
Why stop there? Sue the manufacturer and whatever ever delivery service. Sue the box maker in what those bullets were shipped in.
While we are at it, let's start suing the oil companies for selling the gasoline to drunk drivers using it to get to wherever they kill people.
They know they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. This is a malicious lawsuit intended to try to bankrupt the vendors.
Maybe they should sue the theater for not allowing law abiding people to arm themselves on their property.
If this act of idiocy even makes it to court, I vote the parents be sued for allowing their daughter to go to the movies on that night.
Why stop there? Sue the manufacturer and whatever ever delivery service. Sue the box maker in what those bullets were shipped in.
Sue the guy who operated the forklift.
What a goofy notion.
They should sue the company that mined the ore and made the steel used in the gun.
It makes just as much sense.
So we can now sue the automobile manufacturers if one of our family members is killed in an auto accident?
Sandy and Lonnie Phillips deserve to be shunned as ambulance chasing parasites. their dead child does not give them the right to deny me the ability to protect myself, my family, and innocents. i would like all the families who were there do a class action lawsuit against brady, bloomburg mother for setting up kill zones and all the other anti gun nutters for denying patrons the ability to defend themselves. if this sounds harsh i don’t care anymore. i am sick and tired of pc racist hoplophobes telling me what i can and cannot do as a law-abiding CITIZEN. and i will ccw in those places in commierado with KILL ZONE HERE signs if i have to. it’s not illegal here, unlike some states.
You can sue Mobil for selling them the gas.
I had heard a bus full of lawyers crashed over a cliff..... all were lost, but sadly, there was one empty seat.
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