The company can take the costs, but it doesn’t have a legal or moral responsibility to do so—especially when the people are threatening to appeal and mount up even more costs. The court is meant to determine legal rights, and that doesn’t change if one party is sympathetic and the other is a faceless corporation.

Then sue the guy that shot them? You’re the moron. What more should the theatre have done? Bullet proof cages for every patron?

No, only those people have sued them, not some random Tom Dick and Harrys from the street. Tragically, a lot of people were hurt or had loved ones who were killed that horrible day. Only some decided to sue. It is the lawsuit that prompted the counter-lawsuit. It is not some demonic grudge the theater has against the…

So if someone came into your house and gunned down a guest, and then the family of your guest sued you for not hiring armed guards for your house, you’d go bankrupt rather than do anything to defend yourself? You’d accept the loss of all your money, your home, a good chunk of your prospects for retirement because…

How about we make the NRA pay it?

They’re not demanding the victim’s families pay the legal cost. They’re demanding the people who initiated an unreasonable lawsuit against them pay the cost of that lawsuit.

Then maybe they shouldnt have tried to cash in on the deaths of their family members?

So they make money and therefore it’s okay to sue them for something they’re not responsible for, threaten to appeal and keep suing them when your case gets dismissed, and expect them to shoulder all the legal fees?

Doesn’t this figure represent the cost to the theater of those families pursuing legal action against them even though they did nothing wrong? I feel like I’m mostly OK with this, depending on how aggressively they seek payment. Anyone who jumped on board trying to get a payout or place blame on what amounts to an…

I can understand the thinking, but if it’s a staggering amount of money, then it’s pretty unreasonable for the theater to bear the entire cost of it, isn’t it? They didn’t do anything wrong and they’re out nearly three-quarters of a million dollars.

Kudos to your Dad, he sounds like a good guy.

“Your daughter will reject the religious and moral codes you raised her with,” - Oh, dude, she’s going to do that anyway. That’s what higher education is for. Dangling modifier word salad.

I remember in high school a friend’s mom told me she didn’t believe in lesbians because she just loves dick so much. Ironclad argument.

Thank you. :) He passed last year and it's nice to talk about him, remember his face, and be reminded of his grounded, kind nature.

Can an ungrey’d commenter bump this up? Kfish has a solid, thoughtful commenting history and this is a good one.

My dad was a fairly conservative minister. I remember the look on his face when I explained what purity rings and purity balls were, because they were trending at the time in our community. He didn't know they were a thing. He told me, "That's a personal choice of yours. It has nothing to do with me. You are my…

I’ve asked some former antichoice people this question, and they say it is a combo of both. First, in the fore-front of their minds, they believe this and repeated it. They also really believe they are saving the lives of actual babies. Second, beneath the surface of all that, they know the laws don’t actually protect…

Yes, we can apply it to a lot of things. “Everyone is a responsible banana eater until suddenly they aren’t.”

Everyone is a responsible gun owner until, you know, suddenly they aren’t.