The ritual is as predictable as it is depressing. The mass shooting. The candlelight vigils. The calls for stricter gun control. And the lawsuits.

In the wake of the shooting last week at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that left 10 dead, including the killer, survivors and families of the victims may have viable claims against the school for failing to do more to protect the students, or perhaps against the family of shooter Christopher Harper-Mercer.

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