School shooting: Will there be lawsuits?
 

Is this a possibility? This question just popped into my mind today. It seems the school's door was easily broken in. Could the parents bring a class action lawsuit over this issue? If so, what would their chances be to prevail in court?

Just curious. I'm not for or against it.

Who would they sue?

I am quite confident there are attorneys looking into it as we type.

From what I understand, the school had done everything properly as far as keeping the door locked. Adam Lanza shot his way into the school. If the regulations need to be changed, this will be looked into. Perhaps the parents could sue the shooter's estate.

Sadly, our society uses almost any unfortunate, tragic event or circumstance as a basis for a lawsuit. Some most certainly are justified and should be pursued, many are frivolous and based on opportunism.

There will certainly be lawsuits out of this shooting. There have been from the past tragedies involving guns.

Columbine-- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/20/us...-lawsuits.html

Aurora movie theater-- http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21...-little-chance

Virginia Tech-- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1386348.html

The question that comes to my mind is, "no amount of money can replace a lost child".

janmcn is correct that he shot his was through a locked door.

There may be lawsuits but I tend to think the families invovled are concentrating more on the loss of their child and the heroes. I don't see how they sue as the school did everything right in trying to protect the children.

I need to stop thinking of this tradgedy as it makes me sick.

There's an article up on the Fox News website that says Adam Lanza was very upset that his mother was going to have him committed to some facility. She had started the process of conservatorship and had thought about moving him to a facility in Washington state.


This information supposedly came from a family friend. He also said that Nancy Lanza had worked with the children that were killed last year when they were kindergartners. Adam thought she loved the children more than she loved him.


Who knows if this is true. I didn't post the link, but anybody that's interested could bring it up. It's too bad that she didn't have the time to put her plan into action or get an emergency order to commit him. This latest information makes it even more puzzling about why her guns weren't locked away in a safe place.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...6pLid%3D247593

Maybe the guns were locked up. If he could get in the school I guess he could get into a gun safe. His dad might be in for a lawsuit from someone. I read that her alimony was $289,000 per year. If thats true Mr Lanza must be pretty well off!

That's another wart on our society! Sue sue sue!

I agree with you 1000%

Sad as it is, nothing can bring those people back. You would never expect anything to happen. Someone will try it, then you will have more security around the schools then at a Federal Reserve Bank. What happens when someone does something like this again. You can only do so much to protect.
Sadly in this day in time of lawsuits for anything, it will happen. No one did anything wrong to allow this to happen, No one did anything wrong in the protection of the kids other than not sending them to school in full Kevlar Protective clothing with James Bond as the Body Guard.

Just My Penny Worth.

Someone also posted an idea that each of us should try to perform 26 acts of kindness.

We are all grieving and we have all taken this very personally and as each dear face comes up on our computers and television screen we want to DO something.

That is how people are made.

And when we grieve we go through all of the stages: shock, disbelief, anger and mourning.

Anger is a part of it and many people stay angry a long time.


It is overwhelmingly awful and we know how we feel, we can't even imagine the feelings of the parents and grandparents and children and spouses and treasured friends.

We reach out to God and to each other to try to figure this all out.

Of course there will be and the list of who they sue will be long.

Here is the thing. I'm sure a civil legal case will be made that with the history of mass shooting, including at schools, the district should have know this could happen and should have installed doors that couldn't have the glass "shot through" plus they will also go after the door manufactuer since they sold a door to a school that could be "shot through" and the list will go on and on

The Newtown Tragedy is not really about school safety. Adam Lanza could easily have chosen to walk into a grocery store, a church, an office building, a sports stadium, etc. We can't put everything in America in complete security lockdown in anticipation of the Adam Lanzas of the world.

This Tragedy is about an emotionally troubled young man who needed more than his family and our society could give him (counseling, isolation, I don't know) who had too easy access to weapons whose sole purpose is the taking of human life in a devastating and profound way.

Who do we blame for this? I really don't know. I guess we all look in the mirror for that, and search our own soul.