Families of the victims of a 2023 mass shooting in Maine and dozens of survivors filed a negligence lawsuit Wednesday against the U.S. government, alleging the military and others failed to respond to warning signs and a threat by the gunman, who was an Army reservist.
Robert Card, 40, killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, setting off a two-day manhunt that ended when he died by suicide, authorities said.
The approximately 100 plaintiffs named the Defense Department, the Army and Keller Army Community Hospital in West Point, New York, in the suit, which a team of four law firms filed in federal court in Maine.
They won’t succeed (and if they do, it will be a meager win)
…but if the rest of everyone sees people holding their governments accountable, it can snowball (after we tear it all down and rinse & repeat a few dozen more times over the next 2000 years, if we make it that long)
Lol well be lucky if we last 20 as a society, 200 as a species.
I like your optimism