http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/29/usa-schoolshooting-claim-idUSL1E8NS8IL20121229
if this case is allowed it should provide a direction for prevention measures
Claim seeks $100 million for child survivor of Connecticut school shooting
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if this case is allowed it should provide a direction for prevention measures
It won't be allowed. The only ones they might consider compensation for would be the kids who were actually in the classrooms where the shooting took place, and sadly there are not too many of those left.
To make a claim they would have to show negligence of some sort, and I don't see how that could be argued in this case. The school appears to have taken reasonable precautions, teachers gave their lives to try to stop it and LE reacted promptly.
To make a claim they would have to show negligence of some sort, and I don't see how that could be argued in this case. The school appears to have taken reasonable precautions, teachers gave their lives to try to stop it and LE reacted promptly.
Shakespeare had the right idea.
Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
Dick's Utopian idea to kill all England's lawyers is his addition to the promises of the traitorous Jack Cade, who envisions a quasi-communistic social revolution, with himself installed as autocrat. Cade alleges that all lawyers do is shuffle parchments back and forth in a systematic attempt to ruin the common people.
Cheers
Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
Dick's Utopian idea to kill all England's lawyers is his addition to the promises of the traitorous Jack Cade, who envisions a quasi-communistic social revolution, with himself installed as autocrat. Cade alleges that all lawyers do is shuffle parchments back and forth in a systematic attempt to ruin the common people.
Cheers
Did I miss this, could someone tell me who would pay the $100 million. Ty. 
Would it be the school board..they do not have that money.
Would it be the school board..they do not have that money.
I wonder what they were thinking when they decided to file that lawsuit? Who were they trying to punish? What are they trying to prevent? What message were they trying to send?
So the school board is sued.... and guess who will pay? Tax payers.
Who gets punished? Tax payers.
Will they prevent another shooting with this? No, because after paying off a huge settlement, they won't be able to afford anything - not even security - for the school.
What message are they trying to send? That it's going to cost tax payers a lot of money to have guns in society and have safe enough places for children to go to school at the same time.
Except for the last one, nothing that they are trying to do with this law suit is reasonable. What a cluster fuck of a response to a tragedy that was - by creating another tragedy.
They should sue the NRA, for the constant promotion of guns and negligence at warning the public adequately about how this may harm children.
So the school board is sued.... and guess who will pay? Tax payers.
Who gets punished? Tax payers.
Will they prevent another shooting with this? No, because after paying off a huge settlement, they won't be able to afford anything - not even security - for the school.
What message are they trying to send? That it's going to cost tax payers a lot of money to have guns in society and have safe enough places for children to go to school at the same time.
Except for the last one, nothing that they are trying to do with this law suit is reasonable. What a cluster fuck of a response to a tragedy that was - by creating another tragedy.
They should sue the NRA, for the constant promotion of guns and negligence at warning the public adequately about how this may harm children.
They are trying to get free money. Their kid wasn't hurt, they just heard stuff over the intercom.
