A total of 26 people were killed including an unborn child back in November of 2017 at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs by a punk coward we won’t name who took his own life. Another 22 people were wounded.
The coward gunman was supposed to prohibited from owning or possessing firearms due to a domestic violence conviction & court martial while serving in the US Air Force in 2012.
The Air Force did not report the conviction to the FBI so the coward gunman was allowed to purchase firearms.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez for the Western District of Texas concluded that the Air Force is 60% responsible for the shooting, noting that the military branch’s failure to submit the gunman’s (won’t say his name) domestic violence charges in a federal database allowed him to purchase firearms that he should have been barred from owning.
“had the Government done its job and properly reported Kelley’s information into the background check system—it is more likely than not that Kelley would have been deterred from carrying out the Church shooting. For these reasons, the Government bears significant responsibility for the Plaintiffs’ harm.”
Rodriquez pointed out that no other individual, including parents or partners, knew as much as the government did about his violent history and the violence he was capable of.
Despite conviction and violent history, the gunman was able to pass a mandatory background checks to purchase four different firearms from licensed firearm dealers after he was discharged. Among them was firearm used in the church shooting.
After the shooting, the Air Force admitted that it could have prevented the coward gunman from buying firearms.
The Texas Supreme Court last month ruled that Academy Sports & Outdoor could not be sued for selling the gun because the background check conducted by the store did not show the charges.