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Posted on 09/17/2014 8:12:06 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
DENVER (AP) -- The parents of a woman killed in the Colorado theater shootings filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing four online retailers of improperly selling ammunition, tear gas, a high-capacity magazine and body armor used in the attack.
The lawsuit alleges it was illegal and negligent to sell the gear to James Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the July 20, 2012, attack.
It says the companies had no safeguards to keep dangerous people from buying their goods.
"It was highly foreseeable to (the) defendants that their potential customers included persons with criminal intent, including persons such as James Holmes," the lawsuit says.
The suit was filed by Sandy and Lonnie Phillips of San Antonio, whose daughter, Jessica Ghawi (GAH'-wee), was among the dead.
"We're putting them on notice," Lonnie Phillips said at a news conference in Denver. "We're coming after you."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
So exactly how does the counter clerk tell if someone has criminal intent?
Why not sue WB-DC for their antihero fiction about psychotic killers?
If sleazebag lawyers are able to start convincing a bunch of idiots in the jury pool that this is legitimate... it will mean big problems. We are aviation enthusiasts; the lawyers killed off the small airplane industry in the 1980s. They would manage to convince juries that accidents caused 100% by pilot error were related to manufacturing and design defects.
This is a case that will go nowhere fast.
Won’t see the light of settlement. Let alone, discovery.
Once the ammunition has been sold. It’s solely the buyer’s responsibility. And no one else’s.
Palsgraf v. Long Island RR Co. Judgment for defendants.
“We’re coming for you.” The plaintiff’s lawyer sounds like a real tool.
Ferguson shooting victim’s parents sue ammo seller for selling bullets to police dept-
There fixed it
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Lonnie Phillips, the mother of one of Holmes’s victims, was the one who said, “We’re coming for you.”
Apparently, they’re suing four online retailers.
In the more than 2 years since the Aurora shooting, no judge, DA or any of the numerous psychologists/psychiatrists have declared or adjudicated the accused shooter to be mentally ill...
And yet the ammo dealer, engaged in lawful business activity, and with mere minutes to determine the buyer’s mental state (as if somehow this could be possible over the ‘Net?) should have somehow known that the transaction should not be made because this buyer was/is criminally insane and planning a mass shooting?
All the times I’ve bought ammo online (often a couple thousand rounds at once) and I’ve yet to see the checkbox for “Are you insane or a psycho killer?”
My heart goes out to all who lost loved ones in that crime...But the blame lies solely with the person who pressed the trigger that awful night...And once/if convicted, long past time he paid the price...
Of courswe this is Colorado, so with Chickenpooper in the Guvner’s office, no death sentence for Mr. Holmes...
he wasn’t wearing body armor.
I remember a case where a man got drunk, and then climbed into a Cessna at a local airport and took off.
Of course, the plane crashed and the “pilot” died. His widow sued Cessna Aircraft.
If I were the judge, I would have dismissed the lawsuit and told the woman, “Madam, I’m sorry you’re a widow, but your fool of a husband was killed because he did something incredibly stupid. This case is dismissed, and you have to pay Cessna’s legal fees out of your husband’s estate.”
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getaway??
that car brought him there..
with out that car he would not have been able to get all that gear there.
Ok. She sounds like a real tool then.
Don’t confuse the Social Justice Warriors with facts.
Now that sounds like a really stupid thing to say to “online retailers (that are) selling ammunition, tear gas, high-capacity magazine(s) and body armor”
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