>> personnel will not change their behavior.
Holdin’ muh breath for Technocratic Utopian Progresssssseeeeeives in the Military Industrial Swamp to change their behavior.... NOT.
More Drainage!
TRUMP2020.
Posted on 11/18/2017 10:31:51 AM PST by PROCON
The Air Force faces many millions of dollars in potential liability for the mass shooting at a small-town church in Texas earlier this month by a former servicemember, legal experts say.
“I think it’s almost inevitable that the Air Force will be sued,” said retired Lt. Gen. Richard Harding, former judge advocate general of the service. “And I think there’s a case that can be made, you bet.”
If lawsuits against the Air Force were successful, said Don Christensen, the service’s former top prosecutor, the damages could be huge.
“What is being shot while you’re in church, watching your baby be killed — what’s it worth?” Christensen said. “I don’t see how it’s not the biggest financial payout in the history of the Air Force.”
U.S. laws rarely provide for victims of gun violence to seek compensation in civil lawsuits, and the doctrine of sovereign immunity prevents many lawsuits against the government. But this case is exceptional, experts said.
Devin Kelley, who killed and injured scores of parishioners on Nov. 5 in Texas’ worst mass shooting, was convicted of domestic violence assault in 2012 while in the Air Force. Under a 1996 law precluding spouse and child abusers from possessing firearms, the service’s Office of Special Investigations should have entered that conviction into an FBI database.
The office didn’t, the Air Force has acknowledged. What’s more, the acts Kelley pleaded guilty to — breaking his baby stepson’s skull and hitting and kicking his then-wife — were punishable by imprisonment of more than a year. That qualifies them as felonies, which must be entered into the database.
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Negligence is obvious.
Not the Air Force... taxpayers.
Lawsuits can be very beneficial in cases like this
I only want to know if the Air Force is pursuing charges the personnel who failed to properly perform their duties. If not, then personnel will not change their behavior.
Then maybe it will stir the brain dead tax payers.
While I could certainly agree with that. Even if that dude could not get weapons legally, if he was really intent on killing a bunch of people, he could have bought them from the gang bangers on the street.
I always thought one of the procedures before a prisoner could be released was to put their crimes into the database, that they could not be released otherwise. They do this exactly to prevent this kind of stuff from happening. So how was he released and WHY was he released? Isn’t smashing in a kids head attempted murder? A felony? So was he give a year? Freakin’ tax offenders get more time than that, ridiculous.
Oh yes taxpayers will pay. Part of the reason the desk jockey neglected to file it
I doubt that a “desk jockey” was to blame for this. With almost all dishonorable discharges not filed, that had to be an officers decision much higher up the food chain. The desk jockeys were following orders.
>> personnel will not change their behavior.
Holdin’ muh breath for Technocratic Utopian Progresssssseeeeeives in the Military Industrial Swamp to change their behavior.... NOT.
More Drainage!
TRUMP2020.
Getting darn tired of reading the improper usage of the word “parishioners” in articles about this tragedy.
I hope so.
The chair force has some of the most incompetent clowns I’ve ever worked with in my current occupation. And I’m referring to Officers.
It’s OK
DEMs and Pubbies are crafting a NEW gun law that enforce laws we ALREADY have in order to prevent acts like this that are punishable by DEATH in Tx
Fixed it.
This lawsuit will probably not go anywhere. The shooter didn't have to get the guns from “gang bangers”. He only would have had to purchase them from legally from a private party. There are no restrictions on sales of firearms between private parties in Texas and there is no background check required in this type of transaction.
“This is the most common transaction and by far the most profitable one to boot. In the state of Texas you do not have to transfer ownership of the firearm via a dealer, nor do you have to have the firearm re-registered as there is no such firearms registration in the state of Texas.”
OK, I’ll bite, what is improper?
Not quite sure how the word "parishioners" doesn't describe church members?
“Parishioner” refers to those attending a Catholic church that is organized by geographical parishes. It does not apply to any member/attendee of a Protestant church and most definitely not a Southern Baptist Church. It’s a usage that wouldn’t have slipped by any editor worthy of the name and job. That function does not exist in modern online “journalism”.
see reply #18
Very hard to sue the government!!!
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