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."
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The families of each victim should sue the parents of the killer for about $100 million for failing to abort their defective child or to properly raise him.
Some lawyer would take the case.
Exactly, Sue Hollyweird for all the moonbats.
He didn’t shoot up some theater of people seeing a Victornian era romance...
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