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Posted on 10/19/2014 3:37:59 PM PDT by ModernDayCato
Well done. Have you submitted that to the letter section of any local papers?
Bravo. And I don't mind buying my ammo in New Hampshire.
Excellent essay. While my family deeply sympathizes with the families that lost children we also deeply resent their efforts to make it more difficult to protect our children. I simply do not understand the mindset of shuffling on the train rather than dying fighting the conductors.
Stop it.
>> They want to do SOMETHING that will stop other families from having to experience the evil they endured.
The emphasis must be on mental illness, not the 2nd Amendment.
Thank you for the post.
Thanks everybody. No newspaper would take what I wrote, even if I cleaned it up. I’m pleased that I was able to share it here.
Polls vary, but it looks like Malloy and Foley are neck and neck in the Governor’s race. It’s shameful how the media is shilling for Malloy. I’ve got my fingers crossed. Foley has no position on the new gun law other than “he would have done things differently.” That’s the best we can do.
I buy my ammo in Rhode Island pretty much.
And lastly, as far as the shooting not happening, there was an amazing amount of sleight of hand involved with protecting the crime scene and the privacy of the victims and their families. There were locations that were used for forensics, for example, that were never revealed to the press. I have first hand knowledge that proves beyond any doubt that the shooting was real. I can’t reveal anything more without getting people in trouble. That’s not even considering the massive scale of the conspiracy that would be required to keep a staged incident a secret, from layers of government that leak the smallest thing like a sieve.
I have to admit, the aerial video of the emergency workers and others at the firehouse simply walking around in circles and around the building — which would simulate “action” at ground level — is head-shakingly weird. As one commenter points out:
It’s really easy to follow the guy in the yellow Underarmour Hoodie and shorts in the first segment. He literally walks back and forth in circles, not stopping to talk to anyone. Just trying to look busy.
It really is nothing more than a bunch of people “trying to look busy.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZRa5_DHgl4
For some reason, they have set the thing to needless music. Better watched with the sound down. It’s truly strange.
Thanks for posting this.
The answer to that is easy, if not sad. There were dozens of first responders on the scene — Newtown and State Police, firemen from most if not all of the companies in town (5), and EMTs and other medical personnel. As the incident progressed, police departments from around the state sent people to the scene.
I was in Stamford when everything happened and I was behind a speeding police car from another town for a while on my way back. That particular town sent two SWAT team members.
All of those people had nothing to do, as everyone was dead.
So they very well could have walked around in circles, especially since any wide circle around the perimeter would put you at the Sandy Hook firehouse, where parents and first responders were gathering.
I appreciate your on-site observations, and that could very well be. But no one in that video seems to be doing ANYTHING. They’re definitely all walking around in unison, but no one seems to have a purpose at all. And many are indeed just circling the building. Just seems very odd.
Thank you for your commentary! Well done!
I will never forget what one of my friends (an officer in one of the fire companies in Newtown) said to me about that day. He responded to the scene (it was at least 20 minutes into it) lights and siren. In a big truck. He was passing the exit ramp from I-84 and almost got broadsided by a CT State Police car that just blew through the traffic light.
He followed three police cars to the scene and he said it was complete chaos. He stepped out of the truck and he said all he could smell was burning brakes.
He also said he made himself available to help but he couldn’t go into the school (crime scene) and there was no triage or other medical stuff to be done (there was no one to triage). The road was blocked off a mile away in each direction so there was no traffic control needed, and police were STILL responding from all over the place so you had to watch where you were stepping.
I can’t imagine what it was like, but I’ve seen some videos and heard from other people. I would imagine that everyone wanted to help and didn’t want to leave, so they just wandered aimlessly.
Ok. I looked at the video. That’s the BACK of the Sandy Hook firehouse, which faces what was the Sandy Hook School. There are a lot of ambulances there, including one from Danbury (15 minutes away) and one from Oxford (next town over). There are a few town trucks, probably volunteer firefighters that work for the town, and the Newtown paramedic truck was there.
In the part of the building to the right of the screen was where parents who couldn’t find their children were waiting. There was a priest and the First Selectman and eventually the governor in that space, along with tons of first responders. Many of the circling people could very well be panicked parents looking for their kids, because as we know more than twenty found out in that room that their kids were murdered.
Well said and our sympathies for what you and your neighbors had to endure.
Race can you ping the Connecticut contingent? I’d like to get their opinions too.
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