From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams in for Michael, and this is the Daily. As As mass shootings continue to plague the United States, the families of victims continue to

plague the United States, the families of victims continue to search for accountability.

Now, a pair of lawsuits by the families of victims of the Yavalday school

shooting are trying a new tactic. The suits target a popular video game, a gun

manufacturer, and Instagram accusing them of helping to groom and equip the

teenage gunman who committed the massacre. Today my colleague David Goodman

on the lawsuits and the lawyer behind them.

It's Tuesday, June 18. So David, after a shooting, people are always looking around for who to blame.

They ask questions about how did this person get a gun,

could anything have been done to prevent this, should anything have been done to prevent this.

And now we've got these two new lawsuits that are filed by the families of victims in the Yvalde

shooting and they're pointing the finger in a pretty interesting direction.

So tell me about those.

You know, after all of these shootings what we have is people from the right and from the left sort of going to their different camps.

On the Democratic side, there are calls for greater gun control, background checks, other types of policies that could be put into place to limit the access to guns.

And on the Republican side, it's who is this person and what kind of mental health challenges

are particular to this person.

And we've gone through the cycle so many times that it's really, you know, become just almost like an American tradition for us now.

But you know, recently there have been actually some efforts to try and sort of broaden the scope of who might be you know legally

accountable for these shootings. We want to get you now to Yevalday Texas

Families of victims of the Rob Elementary School shooting are making an announcement.

You can say a lot of things about the law enforcement response in this case,

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