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Senator Scott P. Brown
State House, Room 410
Boston, MA 02133
Recent Press
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.