A 2021 ruling found that the U.S. government was mostly responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a Sutherland Springs church. But the DOJ appealed that ruling this week, which critics say is a win for the NRA.
Visitors tour the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas after it was turned into a memorial to honor those who died during the November 2017 shooting. The Department of Justice is appealing the decision from a district court that found the government 60% responsible for the massacre.Visitors tour the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas after it was turned into a memorial to honor those who died during the November 2017 shooting.
It's still possible that the DOJ could settle the case, though it has already filed an appeal, but it's not yet clear what next steps the department will take. In the meantime, many who work in the gun control advocacy space say the decision politically clouds the Biden administration's own stance on the importance of background checks.
"If the DOJ wins, we have substantially weakened the ability to enforce background check laws," Alsaffar said. "The Biden DOJ is walking right into the NRA's trap," Alsaffar said."Why the DOJ wants to undermine the very most important element of the Biden administration's gun safety policy is beyond me."
Sutherland Springs isn't the first time the government has been found responsible for a mass shooting incident. In fact, during the litigation in the Sutherland Springs case, the government paid out victims from the 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., and the 2015 shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C.
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