Soren wrote:

phdave wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:and i think this has been covered but what happens when they accidentally shoot someone? its #$!&@ absurd.

Accidentally? How about when teachers start shooting their students on purpose and then claiming they were attacked and were defending themselves?

#standyourground

#standyourplayground

The only solution is to give the kids guns too.

easy does it, easy does it
they got something to say no to

i drive about 45min to an hour each way for work. i think halfway in, i've found myself teary-eyed all week. it's impossible not to see their faces or think about the tragedy.

seven(?) more funerals tomorrow

weird that tears might be finite, and that you might find out

9:30am moment of silence nationwide

The parents that are suing Newtown because their child is traumatized are disgusting pieces of shit.

The lawyer is a piece of shit, but the state should be on the hook for any and all mental health bills that the child accumulates. Every survivor should get that. can't imagine how fucked up experiencing this could make a 6 year old.

Pay legal fees with new gun taxes.

will the psychiatrists be armed?

think of the children.

Are the parents suing residents of newtown? Where their kids in the school that was attacked?

The Nightman Cometh wrote:The lawyer is a piece of #$!&@, but the state should be on the hook for any and all mental health bills that the child accumulates. Every survivor should get that. can't imagine how #$!&@ up experiencing this could make a 6 year old.

Why? How is the state in any way liable here based on the limited info we have available to us?

I presume since the state runs the school, I dunno

it's probably the county, right

Good point, I have no idea

jesus christ, you cant sue somebody or some place that has nothing to do with what happened. sheesh, fucking lawyers.

Here is the argument:

He said the State Board of Education, Connecticut Department of Education, and State Commissioner of Education failed to protect his client from “foreseeable harm” by not providing a safe setting, failing to determine whether the local Newtown Board of Education had provided a safe setting, and failing to require the school and the local board to make an emergency response plan.

what a joke. it took 15 shots just to get into the place. this lawyer is scum. the parents are beyond distraught and some unscrupulous lawyer has warped them.

In most places, school districts are not part of the county or the city.

Anyway, I was on a jury once and the case was where a bank customer sued the bank because he was shot during a robbery, claiming the bank had not provided adequate security. After two weeks of testimony, our verdict would probably have hinged on the judge's definition of liability. We never got to that point though, because the parties settled before the judge delivered his instructions to the jury. I think the main purpose of the trial was to determine the degree of liability between the bank and the security company that provided the security guard to the bank. It was pretty clear that the security company was pretty much off the hook after two weeks of testimony.

In short, such a lawsuit isn't all that uncommon.

those are not comparable stories at all