Families of the victims of the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, filed two lawsuits on Friday (May 24) against Instagram's parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and its parent Microsoft and the gunmaker Daniel Defence, claiming they co-operated to market dangerous weapons to impressionable teens such as the Uvalde shooter.
Memorial crosses stand in front of Robb Elementary School, as U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the results of a review into the law enforcement response to a 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, US on Jan 18, 2024.
In one of the deadliest school shootings in history, 19 children and two teachers were killed on May 24, 2022, when an 18-year-old gunman armed with a Daniel Defence rifle entered Robb Elementary School and barricaded himself inside adjoining classrooms with dozens of students.
The complaint also alleges that Activision's popular warfare game Call of Duty "creates a vividly realistic and addicting theatre of violence in which teenage boys learn to kill with frightening skill and ease," using real-life weapons as models for the game's firearms. The second lawsuit, filed in Uvalde County District Court, accuses Daniel Defence of deliberately aiming its ads at adolescent boys in an effort to secure lifelong customers.
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