jmelvin
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Court awards the victims' families $4 million each.
http://www.wset.com/story/17158228/vt-trial-jury-reaches-verdict
http://www.wset.com/story/17158228/vt-trial-jury-reaches-verdict
From one of the links... the state protects its own, of course... State law limits the actual liability to $100,000 each.
TFred
A survivor of the Virginia Tech campus shooting is speaking out against a controversial bill that would allow some Georgia teens to carry concealed weapons.
Since Colin Goddard was shot four times in the infamous 2007 shooting, he has been devoted to keeping guns away from students.
“To say that guns is a solution to gun violence is ridiculous, and the fact that we think students should be allowed to shoot it out with themselves is just an absurd idea,” he told Channel 2’s Linda Stouffer.
Goddard came to the Georgia Capitol on Wednesday to stand with a coalition of people against a state Senate-approved bill that would lower the age to carry a concealed weapon.
Currently, Georgia residents must be at least 21 to get a concealed weapons permit. There is no training needed. The new proposal would open it up to 18, 19 and 20-year-olds, as long as they go through four hours of classroom instruction, four hours of training on a firing range and pass a test.
The bill has vocal opponents. Many of them worry that with more young people getting access to guns, the weapons could end up at schools.
“We should reject any amendment, any legislation and effort that would allow guns on college campuses,” state Sen. Vincent Fort told Stouffer.
Professional Victim Colin Goddard proves he will always be delusional:
Colin Goddard proves he will always be delusional:
But what really gets me is what Colin said here: "To say that guns is a solution to gun violence is ridiculous."
It makes one wonder.
Out of all the potentially great minds that were destroyed that day, why was this idiot left alive.
...he will probably reproduce and give the world more idiot children to contend with,
it could be that he remains alive to be a pinnacle example to the world that no matter the hell one has seen, some people will willingly continue to peddle policies that cater to predators and purposefully do nothing to stand against the face of evil. As such he is a willing accomplice to predators and no friend to victims or their families, despite being a victim himself.
Perhaps people are too charitable to come to that conclusion on their own or state as much though.
its all about the money you think he goes through this dog and pony show for free? Ymmv
What they ought to be held liable for is creating a victim disarmament zone, with known consequences that unfortunately materialized.
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That, and pauperizing fines all around for Hinker's prior deceptive utterances that students could feel safe. False advertising that killed.
Chin Chin nailed it. Violent response to violence is not an acceptable solution to a person who has determined that their life (and yours) means so little that they'd rather be victimized. If only he'd state it in this way, people would put 2 and 2 together and discover the real reason he and other of his ilk don't want anyone having guns. Truth be told, he's probably be just fine with the concept that the police don't have them either.
How well did his "verbal interdiction technique" work when he was being shot?
Seems to me that it sure didn’t work for him any of the 4 times he was shot!