27 People Dead, Mostly Children, at Connecticut Elementary

[majik]

Claim seeks $100 million for child survivor of Connecticut school shooting



MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A $100 million claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor is the first legal action to come out of the Connecticut school shooting that left 26 children and adults dead two weeks ago.

The unidentified client, referred to as Jill Doe, heard "cursing, screaming, and shooting" over the school intercom when the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, opened fire, according to the claim filed by New Haven-based attorney Irv Pinsky.

"As a consequence, the ... child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined," the claim said.

Pinsky said he filed a claim on Thursday with state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., whose office must give permission before a lawsuit can be filed against the state.

"We all know its going to happen again," Pinsky said on Friday. "Society has to take action."

Twenty children and six adults were shot dead on December 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The children were all 6 and 7 years old.

Pinsky's claim said that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and Education Commissioner had failed to take appropriate steps to protect children from "foreseeable harm."

It said they had failed to provide a "safe school setting" or design "an effective student safety emergency response plan and protocol."

Pinsky said he was approached by the child's parents within a week of the shooting.

The shooting, which also left the gunman dead, has prompted extensive debate about gun control and the suggestion by the National Rifle Association that schools be patrolled by armed guards. Police have said the gunman killed his mother at their home in Newtown before going to the school.

Not everyone was debating gun laws it seems.

[Boomchild]

Claim seeks $100 million for child survivor of Connecticut school shooting



MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A $100 million claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor is the first legal action to come out of the Connecticut school shooting that left 26 children and adults dead two weeks ago.

The unidentified client, referred to as Jill Doe, heard "cursing, screaming, and shooting" over the school intercom when the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, opened fire, according to the claim filed by New Haven-based attorney Irv Pinsky.

"As a consequence, the ... child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined," the claim said.

Pinsky said he filed a claim on Thursday with state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., whose office must give permission before a lawsuit can be filed against the state.

"We all know its going to happen again," Pinsky said on Friday. "Society has to take action."

Twenty children and six adults were shot dead on December 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The children were all 6 and 7 years old.

Pinsky's claim said that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and Education Commissioner had failed to take appropriate steps to protect children from "foreseeable harm."

It said they had failed to provide a "safe school setting" or design "an effective student safety emergency response plan and protocol."

Pinsky said he was approached by the child's parents within a week of the shooting.

The shooting, which also left the gunman dead, has prompted extensive debate about gun control and the suggestion by the National Rifle Association that schools be patrolled by armed guards. Police have said the gunman killed his mother at their home in Newtown before going to the school.

Not everyone was debating gun laws it seems.

Gee, I am surprised it took this long for someone looking to get money out this tragedy. As if the money will wipe the memories out the children's heads who witnessed it and survived.

[The Sushi Hunter]

This lawsuit is fucking ridiculous. A lot of it also has to do with influences from lawyers. Like when a plane crashes, lawyers flock to the airports to try and get ahold of loved ones in hopes of drumming up a lawsuit. Seriously I hope they don't get a dime for this.

Watching the news that night, the little kid that was describing how he saw bullets flying down the hallway and one of the teachers pulled him out of the hallway. Anyone see that? He didn't look traumatized at all over it while he was talking about it to the news media. Now all of a sudden everyone's fucked up because of it.

Reminder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWIUWmB2r3k

[Rick]

Claim seeks $100 million for child survivor of Connecticut school shooting



MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A $100 million claim on behalf of a 6-year-old survivor is the first legal action to come out of the Connecticut school shooting that left 26 children and adults dead two weeks ago.

The unidentified client, referred to as Jill Doe, heard "cursing, screaming, and shooting" over the school intercom when the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, opened fire, according to the claim filed by New Haven-based attorney Irv Pinsky.

"As a consequence, the ... child has sustained emotional and psychological trauma and injury, the nature and extent of which are yet to be determined," the claim said.

Pinsky said he filed a claim on Thursday with state Claims Commissioner J. Paul Vance Jr., whose office must give permission before a lawsuit can be filed against the state.

"We all know its going to happen again," Pinsky said on Friday. "Society has to take action."

Twenty children and six adults were shot dead on December 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The children were all 6 and 7 years old.

Pinsky's claim said that the state Board of Education, Department of Education and Education Commissioner had failed to take appropriate steps to protect children from "foreseeable harm."

It said they had failed to provide a "safe school setting" or design "an effective student safety emergency response plan and protocol."

Pinsky said he was approached by the child's parents within a week of the shooting.

The shooting, which also left the gunman dead, has prompted extensive debate about gun control and the suggestion by the National Rifle Association that schools be patrolled by armed guards. Police have said the gunman killed his mother at their home in Newtown before going to the school.

Not everyone was debating gun laws it seems.

Gee, I am surprised it took this long for someone looking to get money out this tragedy. As if the money will wipe the memories out the children's heads who witnessed it and survived.

People are friggin shameless anymore.

[artist4perry]

Sad thing is the school did everything by the book. The parents are opportunists who look to make a quick buck. No thank you for the teachers who laid down their lives for the children, or took bullets to protect them. Only if the school was built like a prison would you be able to completely protect them, but then there are those who would find a way to hurt the kids if they wanted to badly enough. Sad someone couldn't muster a Thank you for those teachers who did all they could.

That is just salt in a deep cavernous wound.

[The Sushi Hunter]

I was reading about murder rates throughout the world and apparently Africa and some Latin countries have most of the highest rate of murder per capita compared to the rest of the world. Does this mean they have more guns over there compared to in America?

[slucero]

Diane Fienstien the ultimate hypocrite on gun control...

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D - CA), author of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, is leading the charge on Capitol Hill to bring back the legislation since it expired in 2004.

“I’m going to introduce in the Senate and the same bill will be introduced in the House, a bill to ban assault weapons. It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets. So there will be a bill. We’ve been working on it now for a year,” Sen. Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

Feinstein’s plans to resuscitate the gun ban law comes on the heels of the deadly mass slaughter at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut by gunman Adam Lanza.

After the deadly Aurora, Colorado shooting Feinstein criticized those who said responsible conceal carry permit holders could have stopped gunman James Holmes, saying "...and maybe you could have had a firefight and killed many more people. These are people in a theater."

Opponents of the Assault Weapons Ban point to Feinstein’s hypocrisy on the issue, as the Senator herself said she obtained a concealed carry permit in California when she felt her life was threatened. In 1995, Feinstein described this experience:

"Less than 20 years ago, I was the target of a terrorist group. It was the New World Liberation Front. They blew up power stations and put a bomb at my home when my husband was dying of cancer and the bomb was set to detonate around 2 ‘o clock in the morning, but it was a construction explosive that doesn’t detonate when it drops below freezing. It doesn’t usually freeze in San Francisco, but on this night it dropped below freezing and the bomb didn’t detonate.

"I was very lucky, but I thought of what might have happened. Later the same group shot out all the windows of my home and I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself, because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. When I walked to the hospital when my husband was sick, I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out I was going to take them with me. Now having said all of that, that was period of time ago and I’ve watched through these 20 years as terrorism has increased both on the far extremist left and the far extremist right in this country."

So Mrs. Feinstein exercised her constitutional right to arm and protect herself against terrorism and extremism (her own words)... yet now she wants to deny that right and solution to her fellow citizens...

wow..

[Duncan]

Excellent article by Sam Harris

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the- ... f-the-gun/

[slucero]

Excellent article by Sam Harris

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the- ... f-the-gun/

Great article.. everyone should read this.

[The Sushi Hunter]

Diane Fienstien has a house in San Francisco which has armed security detail on the premises around the clock every day of the year, plus she's got a concelled weapons permit. This gun issue with her is like everything else with these blow hard dems.

[Boomchild]

Diane Fienstien has a house in San Francisco which has armed security detail on the premises around the clock every day of the year, plus she's got a concelled weapons permit. This gun issue with her is like everything else with these blow hard dems.

Their viewpoints make perfect sense to them. To them there are rules for the "people" and a different set of rules for themselves. They view themselves as an exception in subjects like this.

[Memorex]

Pretty sad times in America.

http://gawker.com/5974190/here-is-a-list-of-all-the-assholes-who-own-guns-in-new-york-city

[The Sushi Hunter]

Diane Fienstien has a house in San Francisco which has armed security detail on the premises around the clock every day of the year, plus she's got a concelled weapons permit. This gun issue with her is like everything else with these blow hard dems.

Their viewpoints make perfect sense to them. To them there are rules for the "people" and a different set of rules for themselves. They view themselves as an exception in subjects like this.

That's probably why they wanted a career in politics, so they could make people live they way they want them to but not have to live by those same sets of rules.

Really look at these politicans. They make up rules that don't apply to them, because they don't have to catch a city bus to work, compete in getting jobs with illigals and derelicts, raise kids that walk to school through city streets, etc, etc, etc. When was the last time you ran into an Ex-American President or his wife and kids at the local grocery store check out counter, while at the gas station or while at the ATM? So the rules they create don't apply to them basically.