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BROWN RESPONDS TO HOSPITAL SHOOTING, FILES BILL TO EXPAND LEGAL PROTECTION FOR GOOD SAMARITANS

BOSTON, MA - State Senator Scott Brown, responding to the recent shooting at Massachusetts General Hospital, today proposed that Massachusetts expand its Good Samaritan laws to anyone who uses deadly force to attempt to protect themselves or another person from murder, aggravated rape, rape, manslaughter or armed robbery.

Good Samaritan laws protect people who give emergency medical care or CPR from being sued in civil court. Brown called for the new law after a lawyer indicated that he might sue hero security guard Paul Langone, who rescued a Boston psychiatrist from certain death while she was being repeatedly stabbed by a mental patient.

Langone, who is legally licensed to carry a firearm, shot and killed the assailant.

“Paul Langone is a hero, not a defendant. He saved the life of a doctor, and potentially the lives of other people in the area, and the district attorney found that his actions were justified,” said Brown. “The last thing that we should do to Paul Langone and people like him is to put them through long and costly civil trials, where they are exposed to multi-million dollar court judgments. Instead, we should shield them from predatory legal action by writing new protections into the law,” he said.

 

 


 


   
 
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