6/27/2004 06:04:28 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

I just ran across this. I was unaware that the victims and victims' families were seeking monetary damages from the Appalachian School of Law from that shooting. Somehow, the law school was supposed to fence in its campus, place armed guards around the facilities, and assign surveillance teams to watch one mentally deranged individual. In short, it's not the shooter's fault, it's the school's fault.

This sums it up

The law school, founded in 1997, was viewed as a sign that times are changing in this old coal town. By seeking money, the shooting victims say former friends and professors now treat them with disdain.

"It's like we've got the plague," Brown said.

You do have the plague, Mr. Brown. Your sickness stems from your disregard for the apparent, that true resposibility for your loss lies in the shooter and the shooter alone, that your salvation stemmed from a classmate with a gun. Your sense of entitlement, without concern for the source, is buttressed by a twisted sense of opportunistic scavenging. Your desire to get rich quick from an innocent party is disgusting. Your plague is not just greed, but greed that compels you to create even more loss. Your greed is destructive, a byproduct of our entitlement culture. If the stakes weren't so high for those involved you could be easily dismissed as nothing more than an immature adult, wanting to have his way. Instead, your actions could destroy an institution, at fault for simply existing, for no other purpose than your pecuniary gain. Your desire for relief from anyone but the shooter is selfish and foolish.

Needless to say, I share your former friends' and professors' disdain.

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