The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killed several people. Their families are fighting Activision, Meta, and Daniel Defense, the company that made the guns.
Josh Koskoff, an attorney, is representing the families who are suing. He earlier got Remington to pay the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims a settlement. The suit against the tech companies says, “Over the last 15 years, two of America’s largest tech companies have worked with the firearms industry in a scheme that makes the Joe Camel campaign look almost cute and harmless.”
The lawsuit specifically mentions Activision’s popular “Call of Duty” video game franchise as a “sly form of marketing that has helped cultivate a new, youthful consumer base for the AR-15 assault rifle” and Meta’s Instagram photo app, which it says “knowingly promulgates flimsy, easily circumvented rules that ostensibly prohibit firearm advertising; in reality, these rules function as a playbook for the gun industry.”
Activision said in a statement that it had “deepest sympathies for the families and communities who remain affected by this senseless act of violence.” However, it also said, “Academic and scientific research continues to show that there is no causal link between video games and gun violence.”
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From what the case says, the Uvalde shooter played “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,” and Daniel Defense’s Instagram ads were also aimed at him. Meta doesn’t let people sell guns on its sites, but The Washington Post said that the company gives gun sellers 10 chances before they are kicked off.
The claim says, “Defendants are eating up lonely teenage boys and spitting out mass shooters.”
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Politicians are still arguing about whether computer games make people more violent. “Current medical research and scholarship have not found any causal link between playing video games and gun violence in real life,” the Stanford Brainstorm Lab said in a 2017 review of 82 medical research papers on the subject.
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