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28 Dead, Including 20 Children, After Shooting Rampage At Sandy Hook School In Newtown
http://www.courant.com/news/breaking/hc-police-responding-to-incident-in-newtown-20121214,0,3969911.story ^ | 12/14/12

Posted on 12/14/2012 7:46:45 AM PST by marthemaria

Edited on 12/14/2012 9:12:15 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: marthemaria

I can see these incidents as being used to argue for something beyond mere gun control—to wit, for a totalitarian police state where we are kept under close government surveillance in order to keep us all “safe.”


61 posted on 12/14/2012 9:13:41 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: TomGuy

Yes the “lockdown”. Why would any school more than a mile way need to be locked down?

If I was a terrorist and wanted to strike us through our children I would start a ruckus at one school and once they were all locked down in a secured, unarmed area while all police were scrambling to one location and no armed parents were allowed on campus I would then execute my real plan.

Back in public school days I told my teenagers that if things go south exit the property immediately before they lock the damn doors and set-up a killing field and go to predetermined place ignoring any teachers on their way, I will be there within 4 minutes of them calling me (better than police response) while evacuating. Luckily, now we are in a small private, conservative, Christian school with our younger ones.

Denying parents their children that are not in the immediate incident zone just infuriates me. It’s all for the children....MY KIDS ARE SAFER WITH ME.


62 posted on 12/14/2012 9:14:02 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: marthemaria

We are a nation of wimps when things like this happen time again and good people do not arm themselves.

We will have aome candlelight vigils and tears....but that doea jack squat for dealing with the next psychopath.

Perennial victims and wimps.....it ia to the point of being embarassing.


63 posted on 12/14/2012 9:14:08 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: marthemaria

We are a nation of wimps when things like this happen time again and good people do not arm themselves.

We will have aome candlelight vigils and tears....but that doea jack squat for dealing with the next psychopath.

Perennial victims and wimps.....it ia to the point of being embarassing.


64 posted on 12/14/2012 9:14:26 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

BREAKING: WFSB quotes CBS “one child has died” in #sandyhook shooting. No other source provided.


65 posted on 12/14/2012 9:16:55 AM PST by LadyEleanor (How Do I change my tagline?)
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To: LadyEleanor; Biggirl
So far all I've heard via WVIT, WTNH and WFSB TV channels in Connecticut... (adult) gunman is dead, one teacher shot in foot... no other fatalities nor injuries else confirmed. Yet.

I pray there were not multiple deaths...

66 posted on 12/14/2012 9:16:55 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: Red in Blue PA

Local twitter feed.

http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Students-brought-to-hospital-from-shooting-4118505.php


67 posted on 12/14/2012 9:17:36 AM PST by Batman11 (We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
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To: dinoparty

Yes we have always had massacres. From the 1700’s to today. What has changed is the media circus. Look at all those stabed at school in the China. Haven’t heard much about it have ya? Because it did not involve a gun. Western shootouts and lawmen being murdered at a alarming rate after the Southern war for Independence. Lots to name but don’t have the time or space. Problem is no one reads much history. One common tie is most lawlessness was ended when citizens with guns and rope had enough.


68 posted on 12/14/2012 9:17:50 AM PST by DeWalt
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To: LadyEleanor

Fox is saying confirmed at least 1 child dead.Also I don’t know if anyone posted this but they are looking for a car with the back window out.


69 posted on 12/14/2012 9:19:05 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: marthemaria; Gabz

Update: According to Hartford’s FOX affiliate, children were indeed among those killed in Friday’s shooting. Police are said to be searching for a maroon colored vehicle with the back window blown out in connection with the incident.

WFSB, the local Fox affiliate, reports that the school is asking parents to stay by the phone awaiting information and not to go to the school.

This is a STEAMING PANTLOAD! Why lock down every school in the area if the perp is already down? If this were an organized attack, it’s be Beslan Redux and a masscal scene.


70 posted on 12/14/2012 9:19:52 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: Old Sarge

The chances of keeping the parents of young children away from that school are ZERO.


71 posted on 12/14/2012 9:23:09 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Obamacare is the socialist cancer of the New Deal metastasized.)
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To: Old Sarge; Gabz; raccoonradio; Biggirl; RaceBannon; GOPsterinMA; StarFan; Black Agnes
WFSB, the local Fox affiliate

I live in CT (about 70 miles from Newtown, CT). I don't know why Fox News is calling WFSB "the local Fox affiliate". WFSB Channel 3 is the local CBS affiliate.

Fox 61 (WTIC) is the local Fox affiliate, located in Hartford, CT.

Prayers for all involved...

72 posted on 12/14/2012 9:23:14 AM PST by nutmeg
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To: marthemaria

We used to live not too far from Newtown. It’s a nice, upscale town. Not as fancy as Greenwich or the towns closer to NYC, but no slums or anything.

I would guess that this was either a nutcase, or someone who had it in for the principal over a disciplinary dispute or something similar. (Still a nutcase, if so.)

Danbury, where some of the victims were evidently taken to the hospital, is not too far away, and has a few slummy sections. But I can’t imagine why the slum folks would go all the way to Newtown to do something like this.


73 posted on 12/14/2012 9:23:37 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Old Sarge

I agree. Lockdowns are stupid and anti constitutional. I would never put my kids into an institution where I couldn’t get them out if there was trouble.

They should let the kids go if there is trouble. Make parents sign a waiver “schools are sometimes shot up by crazy people and we are heretofore not responsible for your son’s safety.”

On 911 my homeschooled kids were right next to me.


74 posted on 12/14/2012 9:23:44 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Gabz

She doesn’t seem to care about your friendship, why should you care about hers? Are you usually drawn to abusive relationships?


75 posted on 12/14/2012 9:23:49 AM PST by PAR35
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To: nutmeg

Looks like the MSM is scrambling for the air time. They can’t even be bothered to get their own call signs right.

“If it bleeds, it leads”...


76 posted on 12/14/2012 9:26:45 AM PST by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: Cicero

Looks like there were two shooters. One dead, one “at large”. Looks like more of a plan.


77 posted on 12/14/2012 9:26:53 AM PST by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: marthemaria

Obama and MSM to demand banning guns in 3...2...1


78 posted on 12/14/2012 9:27:39 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: nutmeg

Swell, Newtown is my town. No kids at Sandy Hook, but one in lock down (and safe) elsewhere in the school district.


79 posted on 12/14/2012 9:28:05 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Solson

If there were two shooters, one on the loose, the children would ne have been released.


80 posted on 12/14/2012 9:29:36 AM PST by never4get (We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid)
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