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Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
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[–] solrize 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This guy seems to have bought the gun legally at a gun store, after filling out the forms and passing the background check. You may be thinking of the guy in Maine whose parents bought him a gun when he was obviously dangerous. They were just convicted of involuntary manslaughter for that, iirc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup, I was just addressing the point of tangential arrest, sometimes it is well justified.

[–] solrize 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well you were talking about charging the gun owner if someone else commits a crime with their gun. That's unrelated to this case where the shooter was the gun owner.

The lawsuit here is about radicalization but if we're pursuing companies who do that, I'd start with Fox News.