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After a shooting in California and another victim of a serial killer in Tampa Bay was found, CBS Evening News described Tuesday as a day filled with bloody gun violence coast to coast. Although accurate, the network tied it all together with a report touting a lawsuit brought by the family members of Sandy Hook victims against Remington Arms claiming company markets to mass shooters. While both ABC and NBC reported on the two shootings, CBS was the only network in the Big Three to highlight the lawsuit.
“Families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims -- 20 first graders and six adults -- are taking their battle against gun violence to the courtroom,” announced Anchor Anthony Mason. “Today, they asked Connecticut's highest court to reinstate their lawsuit against the maker of the gun that killed their loved ones.”
The report by Don Dahler started with a clip of the families’ lawyer in court trying to make their cast. “Remington may never have known [the shooter], but they had been courting him for years,” Attorney Josh Koskoff told the judge. The CBS reporter aided the attorney’s claims, saying “Remington Arms' own advertising for the Bushmaster AR-15 type rifle used images and phrases like, ‘Forces of opposition, bow down,’ and ‘consider your man card reissued.’”
Dahler was not swayed by the argument of James Vogts, who represented Remington, which was that they weren’t responsible for the shooter's actions under federal law.
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