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President Obama reacts as John Brennan briefs him on the details of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
A Message from President Obama about Your Petition on Reducing Gun Violence
President Obama To Hold Moment Of Silence For Sandy Hook Victims
http://flip.it/L3P4U
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to observe a moment of silence at the White House on Friday morning in honor of the victims of the Connecticut elementary school massacre.
The White House says the president will observe the moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. EST, about one week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 children and six adults were killed at the school.
Obama has asked Vice President Joe Biden to produce recommendations on new gun laws by next month and pledged to push new legislation without delay.
The White House said the president’s observance of the shootings would take place in private without press coverage.
Eric Holder: Gun Violence May Be Addressed Through Executive Actions
http://huff.to/UbjqiN
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) – The Obama administration will consider executive actions and specific proposals for legislation as part of its gun policy response to the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday.
Holder, who has been a vocal proponent of a new ban on certain semiautomatic rifles, told reporters that a range of options need to be considered in the coming weeks.
Those options will have to include a “strong and robust” Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the chronically under-funded agency that enforces federal gun laws, he said.
“It’s clear that we need to do more,” Holder said. He did not specifically call on Wednesday for a return of the assault weapon ban.
Sandy Hook must be a tipping point for change
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/19/opinion/morgan-gun-debate/index.html
(CNN) — On Wednesday night, I hosted a town hall-style debate on guns in America, talking to lawmakers, mass shooting survivors, lawyers, gun lobbyists — anyone, basically, who has a strong opinion about what I consider to be the single biggest issue facing America today.
Since I joined CNN two years ago, there have been a series of gun-related tragedies, including the attack on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater massacre.
Each sparked a short-term debate about guns. Yet each debate fizzled out with zero action being taken to try and curb the use of deadly weapons on the streets of America.
Now, following the grotesque slaughter of 20 innocent young children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, I sense that the mood has changed.
We have reached a crucial moment in this debate, and I intend to use my platform to continue this conversation on Wednesday night and going forward. The media have previously been quick to move on to other stories after these tragic acts of gun violence. That must change.
I’ve made my own views clear on my show — the senseless killing has to stop. High-powered assault rifles of the type used at Aurora and Newtown belong in the military and police, not in civilian hands. High-capacity magazines, too, should be banned. And background checks on anyone buying guns in America should be comprehensive and stringently enforced.
The NRA has created a blood thirsty monster by peddling fear for profit? Greed at the sacrifice of children. They’re not going to get away with it this time. Too much innocent blood has been shed. Time to put a stop to this madness. We have had enough!
Heads up, folks!
Newtown Charity Scams Crop Up In Wake Of Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/newtown-charity-scams_n_2333413.html
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The family of Noah Pozner was mourning the 6-year-old, killed in the Newtown school massacre, when outrage compounded their sorrow.
Someone they didn’t know was soliciting donations in Noah’s memory, claiming that they’d send any cards, packages and money collected to his parents and siblings. An official-looking website had been set up, with Noah’s name as the address, even including petitions on gun control.
Noah’s uncle, Alexis Haller, called on law enforcement authorities to seek out “these despicable people.”
“These scammers,” he said, “are stealing from the families of victims of this horrible tragedy.”
It’s a problem as familiar as it is disturbing. Tragedy strikes – be it a natural disaster, a gunman’s rampage or a terrorist attack – and scam artists move in.
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This is atrocious! These grieving families have suffered a monumental tragedy and the scum of the earth is preying upon them. Evil has no bounds. Folks, please make sure you are donating to a legitmate fund for these victims. Check out the organization thoroughly before you part with your money.
Eric Holder To Meet With First Responders In Newtown
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/eric-holder-to-meet-with-_n_2338911.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder will travel Friday to Newtown, Conn., the site of last week’s elementary school shooting.
A Justice Department official says Holder will head to Newtown after meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, who is tasked with leading an administration-wide effort to create new proposals for reducing gun violence. In Newtown, Holder will meet with first responders and law enforcement officials.
The official requested anonymity because Holder’s visit to Newtown had not been publicly announced. He will not be participating in any public events during the visit.
Gunman Adam Lanza burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown last Friday, killing 20 children and six adults before committing suicide.
Adam Lanza’s hard drive may still hold clues, despite “destruction”
http://blogs.computerworld.com/e-discovery/21528/adam-lanzas-hard-drive-may-still-hold-clues-despite-destruction-itbwcw
Adam Lanza’s hard drive may still be recoverable. Data forensically retrieved from the damaged platters may be able to shed light on the Connecticut youth’s tragic motivations. However, ill-informed speculation has implied links to Lanza’s diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome and his playing of violent video-games.
It’s been a coordinated effort by media types like Jake Tapper, limbaughs, CNN etc. to GET ON THE TEE VEE immediately and start pushing the mental illness bullshit when these white men start shooting up and killing folks.
Anyone with a brain and enough normal cells can figure out that Lanza destroyed the hard drive because it links to the EVIL MOTIVES behind his mass murders. And we know the media personality are in the mix. *looking@FOXNEWSLIMBAUGHBECK&NRA*
Bingo!
Connecticut Shooting: First Responders Had Never Experienced ‘Anything of This Magnitude’
Newtown shooting first responder: It was chaos
Every state, every town and every city need to protest until these gun laws are changed. Too much innocent blood has been shed. Enough!
Dylan Hockley
Sweet little Dylan Hockley, victim of Sandy Hook shooting. My heart aches to the core. My soul is crushed. ***tears***
Here is a list of the current NRA Board of Directors
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021993729
Emilie Parker
Robbie Parker Recalls 6-Year Old Daughter, Newtown Shooting Victim Emilie Parker
May you find joy and happiness in the presence of God. RIP precious Emilie.
There is an Emilie Parker Fund set up.
You may donate here:
Ana Marquez-Greene, 7
Ana Marquez-Green, daughter of accomplished saxophonist, Jimmy Greene, was among the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Jimmy Greene dedicated a song to his daughter on his 2009 album, Mission Statement, titled Ana Grace.
May you be kissed in the arms of the Angels. RIP precious darling.
MSM,
If the shooter’s name was Muhammad, he’d be called a terrorist. You need to call this heinous act for what it is..home grown terrorism.
DOMESTIC TERRORISM
White House: President Obama to appear at interfaith vigil Sunday at 7 p.m. in Newtown, Conn. – @hartfordcourant
President Obama to appear in Newtown, Conn.
A senior administration official said Obama will travel to Newtown, scene of Friday’s mass school shooting, on Sunday to attend an interfaith memorial scheduled for the evening.
Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gunman-kills-mother-then-26-in-grade-school-rampage-in-connecticut/2012/12/15/9017a784-46b6-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html
Over 80,000 Sign White House Petition Calling For Gun Regulation Bill
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/15/1341921/over-80000-sign-white-house-petition-calling-gun-regulation-bill-in-just-24-hours/
The following is a list (as released by police) of the victims in Friday’s shooting spree on the campus of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/15/sandy-hook-shooting-victims-names_n_2307354.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female
Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male
Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female.
Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female
Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female
Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06, male
Dawn Hocksprung, 06/28/65, female
Madeleine F. Hsu, 7/10/06, female
Catherine V. Hubbard, 6/08/06, female
Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male
Jesse Lewis, 6/30/06, male
James Mattioli , 3/22/06, male
Grace McDonnell, 12/04/05, female
Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female
Emilie Parker, 5/12/06, female
Jack Pinto, 5/06/06, male
Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male
Caroline Previdi, 9/07/06, female
Jessica Rekos, 5/10/06, female
Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female
Lauren Russeau, 6/1982, female (full date of birth not specified)
Mary Sherlach, 2/11/56, female
Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female
Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male
Allison N. Wyatt, 7/03/06, female
None of these children where over 7 years old.
IF want ACTION about gun control then you should be calling, emailing, tweeting, faxing, your Congressmen. Now Is The Time!
Now Is The Time to go after the politicians who have their hands in the NRA’s pocket.
BREAKING: Twelve girls, eight boys, six adult women killed in Connecticut school shooting: medical examiner
Some of the children suffered 3-7 wounds OMG
Some up to 11
**weeping**
Anthony DiLorenzo@AnthonyOnFOX
CT Medical Examiner: victims wounds were all over the bodies. #newtown
Connecticut medical examiner says most of the wounds were caused by the Bushmaster .223 assault rifle and school victims suffered multiple wounds – from broadcast http://nbcnews.to/UQGcJ0
Mercy, may God have Mercy on this sweet children.
sfpelosi@sfpelosi
To apologists claiming assault weapons went used, #Newtown medical examiner says otherwise. No more excuses – assault weapons ban NOW #guns
LIVE UPDATES: Conn. School Shooting
http://abcnews.go.com/live
A flag hanging in the business area of town waits for victim’s names on December 15, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
Great and poignant gallery, SG2. Impressive links too. Thanks so much for this. I can’t wait to ssee my grandson next month.
Kiss him, hug him and squeeze him tight.
Breaking News@BreakingNews
Connecticut shooting suspect had earlier ‘altercation’ with school staff, state and federal officials tell @NBCNews
http://nbcnews.to/UZIvy1
Connecticut Shooter Adam Lanza: Quiet, Bright, Troubled
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/connecticut-shooter-adam-lanza-quiet-bright-troubled/story?id=17984172
Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 kids and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school Friday, was very bright, say neighbors and former classmates, but he was also socially awkward and deeply troubled.
“[Adam] was not connected with the other kids,” said family friend Barbara Frey. A relative told ABC News that Adam was “obviously not well.”
On Friday morning, Lanza shot his mother Nancy in the face at the home they shared in Newtown, and then drove her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Dressed in black combat gear, he broke a window at the school, which had recently had a new security system installed, and within minutes had shot and killed six adults and 20 schoolchildren between the ages of five and 10.
The shooting stopped when Lanza put a bullet in his own head. Multiple weapons were found at the scene, including two semiautomatic handguns registered to his mother. A Bushmaster rifle registered to Nancy was discovered outside in the car.
Long before Lanza’s spree, however, residents of Newtown had noticed that tall, pale boy was different, and believed he had some kind of unspecified personality disorder.
Adam Lanza has been a weird kid since we were five years old,” wrote aneighbor and former classmate Timothy Dalton on Twitter. “As horrible as this was, I can’t say I am surprised.”
In school, Lanza carried a black briefcase and spoke little. Every day, he wore a sort of uniform: khakis and a shirt buttoned up to the neck, with pens lined up in his shirt pocket.
He hated being called on by teachers, and it seemed to require a physical effort for him to respond. He avoided public attention and had few, if any, friends. He liked to sit near the door of the classroom to make a quick exit.
Quiet, bright, troubled? here we go, folks. Lanza was a MASS MURDERER.PERIOD.
How to Help Families Affected by Newtown School Shooting
http://newtown.patch.com/articles/ways-to-help-sandy-hook
In the wake of the unimaginable tragedy at Sandy Hook School Friday people from all over the world—in Connecticut, California, Canada and much farther away in Australia and India—sent an outpouring of support and want to know how they can help.
If you want to be notified via e-mail of ways to provide comfort and support during this difficult time, please post in the comments section: “I want to help.”
Patch will continue to update this article with ways to help—posting updates to the story as well as in the comments thread, triggering an email notification to commenters—and if you know of an organization or fundraiser providing assistance, let us know in the comments section, too.
Already the United Way of Western Connecticut, in partnership with Newtown Savings Bank, created the Sandy Hook School Support Fund to help provide support services to the families and community that are affected.
Check donations may be mailed to:
Sandy Hook School Support Fund
c/o Newtown Savings Bank
39 Main Street, Newtown CT 06470
If you have questions on the fund, you may call 800-461-0672.
Teachers sacrificed themselves to save their pupils
Three teachers murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School all died heroes as they attempted to save their young pupils from a gunman they recognised as the son of one of the school’s kindergarten teachers.
Dawn Hochsprung left a meeting to confront the gunman along with two other members of staff at the school
Victoria Soto attempted to shield her students and usher them into a closet
Mary Sherlach was a long-serving member of staff
yes; these women are the HEROES. Can’t imagine throwing your body over a child with rounds of amo flying at you…..
Tales of Sandy Hook heroism, young and old
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/14/newtown-connecticut-sandy-hook-school-shooting-heroism/1770555/
Students and teachers displayed courage amid the gunfire.
Stories of heroism by adults and children are emerging from Sandy Hook Elementary School. Here are a few:
School therapist Diane Day described how principal Dawn Hochsprung and a school psychologist, identified as Mary Scherlach, leaped from their seats and ran out of a meeting when they heard gunshots.
“They didn’t think twice about confronting or seeing what was going on,” she told The Wall Street Journal.
Hochsprung and Sherlach were shot dead in the hallway, according to news reports.
Sandy Hook’s lead teacher pressed her body against the meeting room’s door, which did not have a lock, Day said. The gunman shot through the door, wounding the unidentified teacher in an arm and a leg.
“She was our hero,” Day said
Parent Robert Licata told WABC-TV the gunman burst into the classroom of his 6-year-old son and shot the teacher without saying a word.
“That’s when my son grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door,” he said. “He was very brave. He waited for his friends.”
First-grade teacher Kaitlin Riog said she was in a morning meeting when she heard what sounded like automatic gunfire. She then locked her classroom door and herded her students into the bathroom, where she locked them in and blocked the door with a tall storage unit.
“I felt that, in the time, I tried to be very strong for my children,” she told WABC. “I said anyone who believed in the power in the prayer, we need to pray. And those who don’t believe in prayer, think happy thoughts… I told the kids I love them and I was so happy they were my students… I didn’t think we were going to live.”
When police knocked later, she said, she told officers to slide their badges under the door, then told them to get a key to prove they were police. Officers then unlocked the door and took the children to a nearby fire department.
“‘I just want Christmas,’” she says her students told her. “‘I don’t want to die, I just want to have Christmas.’ I said, you’re going to have Christmas and Hanukkah. I tried to be positive.”
Dozens Killed in Conn. School Shooting
SANDY HOOK, Conn.—A man armed with two semiautomatic pistols killed 20 children at an elementary school Friday in a rampage that left 27 people dead and one injured in this suburban town before he took his own life, authorities said.
Police said the suspect, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and began firing shortly after 9:30 a.m., concentrating on two classrooms. It was the second-worst campus shooting in U.S. history.
No motive was cited by authorities. State police said they found the body of someone who lived with the suspect at a house nearby. Mr. Lanza’s mother was among the victims.
Diane Day, a therapist at the school, was sitting with the principal, a parent and other staff members for a meeting when she heard gunshots.
“At first we heard a bunch of kids scream, and then it was just quiet and all you could hear was the shooting,” Ms. Day said.
Principal Dawn Hochsprung and the school psychologist leapt from their seats and ran out to help, Ms. Day said. “They didn’t think twice about confronting or seeing what was going on,” she said.
Without a lock to secure the door, a teacher at the meeting pressed her body against the door to hold it shut, Ms. Day said. That teacher was shot through the door in the leg and arm. “She was our hero,” Ms. Day said.
Carrie Usher, a fourth-grade teacher, said she believed the principal turned on the campus loudspeaker system, which broadcast sounds of “screaming and crying” through the school to warn others. Ms. Hochsprung and the school psychologist, identified as Mary Sherlach, were reported to be among the victims.
Ms. Usher’s class, meanwhile, was in the library and they hid in the closet.
“The gunfire was just unbelievable. It felt like it lasted for five minutes,” the teacher said. “It wouldn’t stop.” No one in her class was hurt.
Police audio from Newtown elementary school shooting
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/14/15907407-elementary-school-massacre-20-children-among-28-killed-in-connecticut-slaughter?lite
Some young survivors — ages 5 to 10 — described the terror of the shooting and a massive police response that included SWAT officers going room to room to search for victims as students huddled in classroom corners.
“That’s when my son grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door,” he told The Associated Press. “He was very brave.”
One student told NBC Connecticut she was in the gym when she heard “seven loud booms.”
“The gym teachers told us to go in the corner, so we all huddled,” she said. “And I kept hearing these booming noises. And we all … started crying.
“All the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us,” she added. “So then a police officer came in and told us to run outside. So we did and we came in the firehouse.”
The high death toll and the tender age of many victims sent shock waves all the way to the White House, where the flag was lowered to half-staff.