How much for your son and daughter in college?
How much are you worth to your state?
Families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre would receive $100,000 each under a settlement the state is proposing to prevent lawsuits, according to a victim’s relative who received a copy of the proposal. In addition to the $100,000 payments to each of the families of those killed, another $800,000 would be reserved for the injured, with a maximum of $100,000 to any person.
You’re kidding right? What these families suffered is beyond imaginable, and their lives are valued as much as a house by the state. A moderate house at that. While I understand the state’s position since the tragedy was unprecedented and beyond their control, but “in October, the families and surviving victims received payments ranging from $11,500 to $208,000 from the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, set up in the days after the April 16 shootings to handle donations that poured into the Blacksburg school.” So they are receiving more money donated by people around the nation than the actual state.
While I hope the families can one day emerge from this tragedy, all the state is worried about is to prevent lawsuits against them. Lawsuits that should be levied against the state of Virginia. Gun control? That’s controlled by the state. Help for the mentally ill? That’s a state problem as well. Safety for the residents of Virginia? You bet its the state of Virginia’s responsibility. If it will take lawyers and angry grief-stricken families to force a state legislature to do something about gun control, then so be it.
This just makes me sick. And to think, they wanted to keep all this under wraps.
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