Should government compensate Newtown's victims and their families?
L.A. Times
2013/01/02 17:48:56
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A Connecticut lawyer has withdrawn -- for now -- a $100-million lawsuit against the state of Connecticut on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor of the Newtown school shooting in which 20 young children were killed. According to the Washington Post, New Haven-based attorney Irving Pinsky might resubmit the claim after evaluating new evidence.
The basis of Pinsky's claim is that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and education commissioner failed to take appropriate steps to protect children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School from "foreseeable harm" and had failed to provide a "safe school setting." Pinsky’s client, according to the complaint, "has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined."
The basis of Pinsky's claim is that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and education commissioner failed to take appropriate steps to protect children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School from "foreseeable harm" and had failed to provide a "safe school setting." Pinsky’s client, according to the complaint, "has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined."
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Sometimes, something is a tragedy which cannot be foreseen or prevented.
Government was not meant to be a continuing bail-out for people caught in the cross hairs of someones mental instability, causing many deaths and wounds to others. They are, however, responsible for those veterans that have given their all on battlefields across the world, sending young and old alike to their deaths, to maiming their bodies, but when it comes to PTSD which cannot be seen, it is only a few.
People, our government each year increases not only their pay, but also their benefits at the drop of a dime, but when it comes to those that protects the SOBs from people across the world, they will get their job done rather quickly. If only a senator serves one term in congress, they will receive for life a retirement plus benefits. A 30 year career man in the military will receive what? You look it up and see the difference.
My opinions of those that sit back and play electronic games and on the cell telephones...
Government was not meant to be a continuing bail-out for people caught in the cross hairs of someones mental instability, causing many deaths and wounds to others. They are, however, responsible for those veterans that have given their all on battlefields across the world, sending young and old alike to their deaths, to maiming their bodies, but when it comes to PTSD which cannot be seen, it is only a few.
People, our government each year increases not only their pay, but also their benefits at the drop of a dime, but when it comes to those that protects the SOBs from people across the world, they will get their job done rather quickly. If only a senator serves one term in congress, they will receive for life a retirement plus benefits. A 30 year career man in the military will receive what? You look it up and see the difference.
My opinions of those that sit back and play electronic games and on the cell telephones during congressional sessions, as seen on the nightly news, kind of forms my opinions to the negative, and how the do nothing congress for years has contributed to the downfall of this nation. America, wake up, because one day, you will be awakened to something that you will not desire to wake up too.
A lawsuit that forced the Connecticut government to either scrap its unconstitutional gun control laws or pay a bunch of money to shooting victims would be a much better idea.
A "Guns not allowed" sign is an invitation for one of these guys to come into another school or theater and do it again. I concealed carry and avoid "gun free zones." If I have to go in, I do my business and get out again as quickly as I can.
Suing the innocent people living throughout the state who were not even involved is just plain stupid. This lawyer is probably a damned ambulance chaser.