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Jason McMillan,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eVictims of a fatal mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival said they were outraged on Monday when they learned they were being sued by the company that owns the hotel where the gunman opened fire.\u003cbr/\u003e              Jason McMillan, a 36-year-old Riverside County sheriff's deputy who was shot and paralyzed, said he can't believe MGM officials would try to foist blame onto anyone but themselves.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I just can't believe the audacity,\" McMillan said at a press conference in Southern California where survivors, victims' relatives and attorneys railed against the decision to file lawsuits against hundreds of victims.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"They're not going to get away with anything. We'll keep this going as long as it takes,\" McMillan said.\u003cbr/\u003e              MGM Resorts International sued victims in at least seven states last week in a bid to get federal courts to declare the company has no liability for the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.\u003cbr/\u003e              In October, high-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds at the festival by firing onto the crowd from his room at the Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas. Paddock then killed himself.\u003cbr/\u003e              MGM's lawsuits — which target victims who have threatened to sue or who have sued the company and voluntarily dismissed their claims — argue that that the shooting qualifies as an act of terrorism and that federally certified security services were used at the concert venue, which is also owned by MGM.\u003cbr/\u003e              After 9/11, the U.S. enacted a law giving companies a way to limit their liability if their federally certified products or services failed to prevent a terror attack.\u003cbr/\u003e              A message was sent to MGM seeking comment on victims' reactions to the suits.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              Victims of a fatal mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival said they were outraged on Monday when they learned they were being sued by the company that owns the hotel where the gunman opened fire.\u003cbr/\u003e              Jason McMillan, a 36-year-old Riverside County sheriff's deputy who was shot and paralyzed, said he can't believe MGM officials would try to foist blame onto anyone but themselves.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I just can't believe the audacity,\" McMillan said at a press conference in Southern California where survivors, victims' relatives and attorneys railed against the decision to file lawsuits against hundreds of victims.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"They're not going to get away with anything. We'll keep this going as long as it takes,\" McMillan said.\u003cbr/\u003e              MGM Resorts International sued victims in at least seven states last week in a bid to get federal courts to declare the company has no liability for the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.\u003cbr/\u003e              In October, high-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds at the festival by firing onto the crowd from his room at the Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas. Paddock then killed himself.\u003cbr/\u003e              MGM's lawsuits — which target victims who have threatened to sue or who have sued the company and voluntarily dismissed their claims — argue that that the shooting qualifies as an act of terrorism and that federally certified security services were used at the concert venue, which is also owned by MGM.\u003cbr/\u003e              After 9/11, the U.S. enacted a law giving companies a way to limit their liability if their federally certified products or services failed to prevent a terror attack.\u003cbr/\u003e              A message was sent to MGM seeking comment on victims' reactions to the suits.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Las Vegas – 1 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various stills of aftermath from shooting\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Las Vegas – 2 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Various stills showing aftermath the day after\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Newport Beach, California – 23 July 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason McMillan, paralyzed from Las Vegas shooting\u003cbr/\u003e              ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS STILLS++\u003cbr/\u003e               \"It enrages me to think that this this company can just try to skip out on their responsibilities and their liability for what happened. And to blame the victims, to say that it's it's anyone else's fault other than their own is, it's absurd. And I just can't believe the audacity of them. They're not gonna get away with anything. We'll keep this going as long as it takes.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ++SOUNDBITES SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Ahlers, 38, of Beaumont, Calif., Wife was killed in Las Vegas shooting:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"They say people die twice. Once when they first die. And then again when you stop talking about them. I post pictures of my wife every day on social media. We talk about her all the time. We celebrate her and love her very much and miss her. I was recently informed by some friends that he I was being sued by MGM. I'm going through all this and still going through this and to find out that this huge company MGM Resorts is suing me. I mean how how do you deal with that. You know, I don't know what else to say.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Las Vegas – 1 October 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various stills of aftermath from shooting\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Newport Beach, California – 23 July 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS STILLS++\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joyce Shipp, Daughter Died in Las Vegas Shooting\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I mean I wasn't at the concert but I live it every day. I got this frantic call from my grandson about half hour after it happened. And he was frantic and said 'have you heard from my mom?' I said no. 'We can't find her.' And that was my first clue that there was something really bad going on. We didn't know she was dead for almost three days. She was one of the last people to be identified. The fact that they are trying to sue us, or they are suing us, it's outrageous. I am so pissed about it that they have the audacity to put me through that again. I mean, who does that? Who does that? 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