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

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Law enforcement experience, or just internet experience?

This isn't a law enforcement issue, but a security one. I have experience in security as a paratroop and as a rent-a-cop. And I can assure you, there is no way to prevent a maniac from shootin' up a place. We get court houses shot up, exactly what kind of division-level security do you expect at schools? The only thing we can really do is respond in a timely manner.

Am I only allowed to comment on the NFL if I played pro football?
 
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I'm not saying what the answer is - I'm not getting into that debate.

However, what I'm saying is that this lawyer is filing this lawsuit in order to force state legislatures to have that debate and to come up with solutions, if only to fulfill their legal obligations in protecting school students in order to prevent future lawsuits against them.

Hopefully, they will come up with some reforms that do actually better protect students.

Bull****, this lawyer is filing this suit because he likes money.
 
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Poor reasoning. The shooter would not know which teachers are armed, presumably even as a student of the school and CERTAINLY as an outsider. If you think a uniformed guard in the open obstructs someone intent on mass murder, you're not thinking right. Shoot the guard first, end of defense.

A teacher(s) needn't patrol. When the shots start going off, maneuver and engage.

The objective cannot be prevention - that's impossible. The objective must be mitigation and immediate effective response. Like an ambush, return fire immediately or everyone dies.


Maneuver and engage. Ambush.

These are teachers you're talking about. REAL LIFE IS NOT AN ACTION FILM.
 
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Maneuver and engage. Ambush.

These are teachers you're talking about. REAL LIFE IS NOT AN ACTION FILM.

Some of those teachers might be ex-military, others simply aggressive. Anyway, my life is an action film, especially some parts, if you get what I mean.
 
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Many of these classrooms only have one door...That's one way in, one way out....Couldn't we just install doors on the outside of the classrooms with fire escapes for those on upper floors?
 
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Never underestimate the level some people will sink to for money. Disgusting
 
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Many of these classrooms only have one door...That's one way in, one way out....Couldn't we just install doors on the outside of the classrooms with fire escapes for those on upper floors?

That would work for schools that have a central hallway and classrooms only on exterior walls, which was not how the schools I attended were laid out.

I agree that the layout of most schools is extremely poor tactically. Shooting galleries full of helpless victims. That is why these psychos pick them.
 
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That would work for schools that have a central hallway and classrooms only on exterior walls, which was not how the schools I attended were laid out.

I agree that the layout of most schools is extremely poor tactically. Shooting galleries full of helpless victims. That is why these psychos pick them.

Well it's not exactly like architects design schools over the notion that someone might shoot them up...

It's really sad this even has to be a debate - what the hell happened to this country? I'm only 32 and everything was fine when I was a kid going to school, that was before Columbine and all the other shootings.
 
You seem surprised by this. I'm not. And I predict that families of ALL the victims will sue before the year is out.

I was surprised that te first lawsuit was by parents who had not lost a cild.
 
I was surprised that te first lawsuit was by parents who had not lost a cild.

I'm not. They didn't have to plan a funeral and find money to pay for it. Funerals take time, before and after.
 
I am not a CT taxpayer so it is okay with me if one of their liberal juries gives them the whole $100M so that the liberal jury's taxes go through the roof to pay for it.
 
You seem surprised by this. I'm not. And I predict that families of ALL the victims will sue before the year is out.

Are you kidding me? Think about who they are suing. They are suing all of the taxpayers in their school district, i.e. their neighbors. Their lawyers, of course, get their share and the rest goes to the parents of those school children.
 
Are you kidding me? Think about who they are suing. They are suing all of the taxpayers in their school district, i.e. their neighbors. Their lawyers, of course, get their share and the rest goes to the parents of those school children.

So? There are causes of action against public officials. Government immunity does not attach in every instance. And they have liability insurance if they have a lick of sense, which I doubt.
 
This is so wrong .... it's sick.:roll:
 
Seems like a rock and a hard place to me.

Folks don't want anyone carrying a gun in schools, but there is no way to stop a shooter without having a gun.
 
So? There are causes of action against public officials. Government immunity does not attach in every instance. And they have liability insurance if they have a lick of sense, which I doubt.

Use common sense, even if just for today. It is not as if the court will say to the school board (or any other gov't officials) that they must sacrifice any personal wealth, property or position of power. This is simply taking general tax money that would otherwise be allocated for education, improved school security or other public services and giving it to lawyers and the parents that happen to have had children in the one school chosen by the mass killer. It helps nobody but the greedy that seek their neighbor's money, solves no problem and reduces the chances that any corrective action will be taken since they have a judgment against future tax revenue. If insurance is involved then that cost will likely be spread to all schools as increased premium costs to recover the amount of the judgement.
 
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