PA Bill Number: HB829
Title: In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
Description: An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
Last Action: Signed in House
Last Action Date: Jul 3, 2024
Lawsuits Do Nothing To Stop Mass Shootings, Say Those Sued Over Vegas Massacre :: 07/05/2018
Lawsuits won’t prevent mass shootings – they will only create a nanny state that still won’t deter the country’s sickest individuals from carrying out their attacks, says the owner of a Las Vegas resort where dozens were gunned down in 2017.
The Mandalay Bay and owner MGM Resorts are asking that multiple lawsuits filed against them over an October mass shooting during a concert be dismissed. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Facing litigation from those affected by the actions of Stephen Paddock - who fired on a concert attended by more than 20,000 people from his Mandalay Bay hotel room in October, killing almost 60 and injuring hundreds more– MGM Resorts has removed several cases to federal court and asked judges to dismiss them.
MGM, Mandalay Bay and other defendants are accused of negligence that aided Paddock, who shot himself in his hotel room before police could reach him.
“Shifting liability will not bring an end to the scourge of mass shootings,” says the motion, filed June 29. “Paddock’s crime occurred despite, not because of, the efforts of Defendants’ employees – many of whom were its victims.”
If property owners were responsible for the acts of unpredictable criminals like Paddock, entire industries could be crippled by the threat of liability, the motion says.
That would lead to “endless TSA-style bag searches, body searches, intrusive video recording (and) unannounced car and room inspections,” the motion says.
“Such measures violate the most basic privacy rights of innocent people; and such measures would fail to prevent determined criminals with easy access to violent assault weapons from turning those weapons on innocent victims going about their lives, at social occasions as old as history: musical performances, churches, theaters, stores, parks, schools and every other public place and occasion.”
