Pinsky Fields Death Threats Over Newtown
by Paul Bass | Jan 1, 2013 12:07pm
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Posted to: Courts, Town News, New Haven, Newtown, Legal
More than 50 people have threatened to harm Irv Pinsky since he filed notice that he plans to sue the state in connection with the Newtown massacre, the New Haven lawyer said Tuesday.
Bill O’Reilly and others have called, too, asking him to appear on national TV, Pinsky said. He’s not heeding them either.
Why? He wants to avoid adding to the “divisiveness” that has erupted since he took the debate over the Newtown massacre to the legal realm, Pinsky said.
Pinsky made those remarks in a New Year’s Day interview with the Independent four days after he filed notice with the state claims commissioner that he wants to file a $100 million state claim on behalf of a client, a 6-year-old who heard the “cursing, screaming and shooting” inside Sandy Hook Elementary School when a gunman massacred schoolchildren on Dec. 14. Read about his legal filing here.
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posted by: sparkplug | January 1, 2013 1:51pm
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For example, it’s very well-established law that local school districts are “not state agencies” for the purposes of the issue of negligence. The premise of his lawsuit is badly flawed.”
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What a ridiculous statement. The state government declared all schools to be gun free zones. They made sure no armed security could be employed to protect our kids. How is that not negligence?
I also find it ironic that the state Capitol is up to its eyeballs with armed security personnel. Evidently our politicians have decided that THEY are deserving of protection but our kids are not. What a bunch of hypocrites.
posted by: Joebigjoe | January 2, 2013 5:18pm
Sparkplug, the worst part of this is that off duty police cant be armed when they come to the school to get their own kids. I might, under duress, agree with them not wanting me armed, but for police to not be, shows them to be in some Utopia that doesnt exist. Punishing tax payers with big lawsuits wont work because the people that vote some of these idiots in probably don’t pay taxes. The other game is that some people that voted for Gun Free Zones did it because it was in some bill providing needed money for schools.
The game that’s being played locally and in Washington is pathetic. It’s really alot worse than it was twenty years ago. No character, all games and parliamentary tricks rather than solving common sense issues.
posted by: sparkplug | January 5, 2013 9:25am
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The other game is that some people that voted for Gun Free Zones did it because it was in some bill providing needed money for schools.
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So what you’re saying BigJoe is that in the eyes of our state politicians the blood money they receive from the feds is well worth the lives of a couple dozen young kids, or even more in the future. That’s just great.
posted by: Joebigjoe | January 5, 2013 11:43am
SparkPlug that is EXACTLY what I am saying. Before Newtown there was overwhelming factual evidence that Gun Free Zones made people more of a target for sick people that dont follow laws.
We should be going back to speeches made to the legislature to see who supported this idea and WHO supported the idea that off duty police have to disarm and leave the weapon at home before going into their childs school as opposed to keeping in concealed. How dumb is that?
I understand how a school may not feel comfortable with me as a dad going into a school with my gun concealed but an off duty police officer mom or dad? That tells me its all about Utopian liberal crap and not about reality and its that same Utopian liberal crap where years ago the decision was made with the help of the ACLU that Adam Lanzas were much better off at home than in a hospital.