The victims of the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in which 26 were killed, said they have reached a “tentative agreement” with the Justice Department to settle a case against the federal government for $144.5 million.
The agreement has to be approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland. If he signs off, it would end a yearslong legal battle over a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. government bears some responsibility for the attack because it failed to submit the shooter’s criminal history into a database that would have prevented him from purchasing firearms.
[The moral of this story: let’s start enforcing laws already on the books before we start passing new laws that restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans. Instead, the DoJ had tried to defend itself by arguing — I kid you not — that the background check system that gun-controllers love is basically useless. And it is, if government agencies don’t prosecute crimes properly and then fail to report the convictions they *do* get. — Ed]
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