Within hours of the Colorado shooting on July 19, as people tried to make sense of the massacre that killed 12 people at a showing of “Dark Knight Rises." Now the first lawsuit has been filed and it finds a slew of other culprits to blame for the tragedy. Interestingly, the shooter, James Holmes, was not named in the lawsuit.
According to Reuters, Terrance Brown - who was in the theater and avoided being shot, but lost his best friend - is suing the movie theater, the doctors of Holmes and the film studio that produced the movie. Brown blames the theater for not having an alarm on the emergency door that would have signaled Holmes' return and he blames the doctors for not keeping a closer eye on the medication Holmes was on and making sure he didn’t skip any of it. Warner Bros, the film studio that produced “Dark Knight Rises,” is named in the lawsuit for providing a blueprint for Holmes to follow through some of its earlier movies.
Our question here is, do you believe that the movie theater, the film studio, the gun lobby and the doctors treating Holmes were complicit in the shooting? Or do you believe is it time that we, as a society, start expecting people to take more personal responsibility for their actions?
But no one else, no company, no system, can be blamed for the actions of one individual. Whatever happened to taking responsibility for your own actions? All people want to do in this day and age is to blame anyone but themselves for things they do. I really can't believe that anyone would even ask this question. Lawsuits like that are one thing that's ruining this country. Any way to make a quick buck. Those ought to be against the law. Who do you think is to blame???
James Holmes planned and executed mass murder. The police have said no one else was involved. He acted alone. If he didn't have access to guns he would have found another way to kill. Guns are not the problem. Law abiding, sane people do not commit mass murder.