…intentionally trying to mislead people?
That sounds really bad. Things like that aren’t supposed to happen. Right?
A person might get to wondering, though, what happened between that first thing and that second thing. America’s courts aren’t above imposing the equivalent of bullet fees, but not usually in cases like this.
So what happened, I wonder? Oh! Yeah, that’s right…
Okay, the aggrieved lady in question is Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was murdered along with eleven other people in the Aurora Theater shooting when a gun-free zone malfunctioned and allowed a nut job to do something terrible to a dark theater full of helpless people disarmed by law.
Ms. Phillips, quite understandably distraught at the violent death of her daughter, seems to have come to the conclusion that what the situation requires is more helpless victims. She and her husband allowed themselves to be used as poster children by Michael Bloomberg and his nascent Everytown group, and then by the Brady Bunch and Obama. She made the round of anti-gun chat shows. One might be forgiven for getting the impression that she began to enjoy the attention. Poor grieving mother, all she wants is to save others from her fate.
And then she got royally screwed. The brady bunch, always looking for some new proposed restriction on guns and ammo they can pin to a tragedy, sued Lucky Gunner and some other on-line retailers big-time. They claimed negligence because these companies sold ammo to the Aurora shooter without performing some magical background check. And Sandy Phillips was right there as the plaintiff.
“Two years ago when our daughter Jessica was murdered, and we first heard the details of the massacre, I asked my husband: ‘How can anyone order over 4,000 rounds of ammunition without raising any red flags? Why weren’t any questions asked of the person who bought all of this ammunition?” said Sandy Phillips. “As gun owners, parents, and citizens of this country, we hope that our lawsuit will spare other families the tragedy that we have gone through after the death of our beautiful daughter.”
Six months later the suit was dismissed and the judge assigned the defendents’ legal fees to the plaintiffs. He suggested that the Brady group which had so enthusiastically started the whole thing and provided the lawyers willingly enough, might want to help the penniless Phillips family pay up. But suddenly the Bradys were nowhere to be found. Legal fees? What legal fees?
That was two years ago and the Phillips family continues to swing in the breeze, owing more than $200,000 that will surely never be paid. Certainly not according to Sandy Phillips, long since a professional victim perfectly happy to twist fact and logic to fit her own narrative, who has failed to learn a thing from her terrible experiences and betrayals but who still craves the limelight.
“How can anyone order over 4,000 rounds of ammunition without raising any red flags?”
Let’s see. SR9 clip holds 17 round, so if you want to fire off four or five clips a week to stay sharp, that’s 5*17 = 85 rounds a week * 52 weeks = 4,420 rounds. Horrors.
Or, you could just become a cop. Then you don’t have to worry about practice because you’re mostly just shooting through the driver’s side window and you aren’t responsible for any damage anyway.
Cheers
I feel sorry for the Phillps family. Not only have they experienced the horror of losing their daughter to a maniac, they have, in their grief, been manipulated by scum like the Brady group into falling responsible for huge legal costs that have essentially destroyed their financial situation. I cannot imagine their mental orientation at this point, first the unimaginable horror of their daughter’s death but then the additional brainwashing/manipulation/abandonment by a left-wing schlock group like the Brady bunch. They are as much victims as their daughter, but simply don’t realize how badly they have been played. Sadly, they continue to act out this theater of the absurd.
I feel for this person regarding the loss of her daughter, I do. However if had she stopped and did a little critical thinking or just used Google before joining the lawsuit she would not be out that money. So if she’s looking for sympathy on that front it can be found in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.
“How can anyone order over 4,000 rounds of ammunition without raising any red flags?”
If that’s a rational argument against bulk ammo purchases then what about the folks who stock up on gasoline? Are these people closet arsonists? Hell I’ve bought more than 4,000 rounds of ammo when I was still in IPSC. These days i buy in bulk just because it’s a damn sight cheaper.
There’s an entire population not “up on” firearms and their legitimate uses. I don’t find it surprising that the Phillips were easily taken in by the Brady idiots. I have a LOT of ammo and components in quantity that would surprise some of my friends, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that they might sorta wonder about that.
I’m not making excuses for the Phillips’ seemingly irrational behavior here, just pointing out that they did in fact suffer a highly traumatic episode that left them open to easy manipulation by the Brady group. That’s all.
Ha. Personal responsibility works both ways. For once the right people won.
Frivolous lawsuits have screwed up the legal system for all of us. Legitimate causes are lost amongst all the dross of stupidity.
In other words, she got played by the Brady bunch.
Ha, ha, ha.
“Ha, ha, ha.” ????
By this do you mean she somehow DESERVED to get drawn into the Brady fiasco? Granted she was certainly naive in her failure to recognize the Brady agenda only to be abandoned by them when the court threw out the admittedly frivolous legal action, but I cannot avoid having a degree of sympathy for her, and her husband’s, terrible loss that must certainly have affected their frame of reference in the matter.
I am a Life Member of the NRA and a certified instructor therein, I voted for Trump, and will do whatever it is in my power to support the Second Amendment . . . if any of that matters. But I cannot carry a grudge at someone who suffered such a personal loss only to be conned.
She wasn’t conned, Kentucky. From the sound of it, before she & her husband ever spoke to an anti-gun-rights group, they wanted to limit my rights & yours. I feel sorry for her loss, but her actions resulted in a result perfectly acceptable to me.
I’m not making excuses for their anti-gun activities but they had little to no real power to effect any changes as they were mostly singing to their own choir. Without the manipulation of the Brady bunch they would never have found themselves in their current situation which IMHO is due to their naivete moreso than their political beliefs, to which they are entitled even if we disagree with them. That they now play the victim card, however, does make their sincerity suspect.
Not disarmed by law. Disarmed by corporate policy {read: lawyers}. I always carry in a theater, in the parking lot, etc. Just not restricted theaters. I don’t go there. I don’t care that much. I haven’t been to a movie in mummelmummel years.