{"id":57097,"date":"2014-12-14T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57097"},"modified":"2014-12-14T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:22:52","slug":"newtown-victims-to-file-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57097","title":{"rendered":"Newtown victims to file lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> reports that some of the families of the victims of Adam Lanza in the Newtown shootings two years ago are planning lawsuits for wrongful deaths;<\/p>\n

The parents of eight of the children killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, carnage, which 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza ended by shooting himself dead as he heard police sirens approach, have notified Connecticut courts that they may file wrongful death lawsuits in state or federal court.<\/p>\n

Their initial court filings, related to legal entities created in memory of their children, do not indicate who the families could target in their lawsuits, according to a chief court clerk for North Fairfield County Probate Court.<\/p>\n

While the parents could not be reached for comment, a spokesman for Bridgeport law firm Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder said that a lawyer at the firm had recently met with some of the Newtown parents about potential suits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I sympathize with them, and I understand their feeling that they need to strike out at someone, but whoever they end up filing these lawsuits against are not the people responsible for the deaths of their children. The two people responsible, Adam Lanza and his mother, are dead. <\/p>\n

I know that they think that they can force the government to write new laws, but the truth is that Adam Lanza broke a number of laws when he committed his horrendous crime. Laws won’t prevent these shootings. Connecticut passed a number of new laws in the wake of the shootings, none of which would have prevented Lanza, or any future gun man, from circumventing existing statutes.<\/p>\n

When existing laws prevented Lanza from buying a gun, he killed his mother and took her guns. I guess murdering your mother isn’t illegal enough. Then he took those stolen guns into a school, which is illegal by newly written federal laws, but not enough. Then he started murdering people, again, illegal but not enough.<\/p>\n

But I guess we all feel the need to do something, anything, whether it’s effective or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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