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CBS News: 27 Dead, Including 18 Children, In Elementary School Shooting (Father was shooter)
CBS ^ | 12.14.2012 | CBS

Posted on 12/14/2012 10:40:10 AM PST by Morgana

NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut/AP) — CBS News is reporting that 27 people are dead, including 18 students, after a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The gunman is among the dead.

CBS News’ John Miller reports there is preliminary information that the gunman was the father of one of the students. Miller additionally reports the gunman is 20 years old and is from New Jersey.

The shooter was killed and apparently had two guns, a person with knowledge of the shooting said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way. It is not known whether the shooter took his own life or was killed.

CBS News reports that a second person is in custody and that SWAT is now investigating the home of the suspect.

A witness tells WFSB-TV that a second man was taken out of the woods in handcuffs wearing a black jacket and camouflage pants and telling parents on the scene, “I did not do it.”

Fox Connecticut reports that the shooting began in the kindergarten classroom.

“It’s just a bad situation,” Newtown Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Stoyak told CBS 2.

Two students and a teacher were also injured in the shooting and they were taken to Dansbury Hospital, spokeswoman Diane Burke told CBS News York.

(Excerpt) Read more at connecticut.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: arth; co; connecticut; homeschool; mask; maskedman; sandyhook; school; shooting
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To: rusty schucklefurd
some of you guys

Even if your silly mischaracterization was somehow true, I would not be one of the "you guys" you refer to. Please cram it.

141 posted on 12/14/2012 4:24:53 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
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To: AliVeritas

My apologies to Ryan, I heard his name several times, saw it in print,

I wonder what he was doing in the woods, though??


142 posted on 12/14/2012 4:25:26 PM PST by RaceBannon (When Chuck Norris goes to bed, he checks under it for Clint Eastwood!)
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To: Springfield Reformer

When there is breaking news re a tragedy like this and you jump in and start spouting off nutty conspiracy theories and other topics off point, it’s just an annoying distraction to people that want facts and news. If you want to discuss other things, start a new thread and you and people that want to participate in such a discussion can have at it.


143 posted on 12/14/2012 4:34:10 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: metmom

“You know, homeschool parents did not have to worry that their children were some of the casualties today. Kids are safer at home and it really is another valid reason to homeschool.”

exactly why I pinged you because there was ever a reason to homeschool this was/is it!!!


144 posted on 12/14/2012 4:35:34 PM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: Morgana; verga; Gabz

simply not the time for this...very, very cruel on your part.


145 posted on 12/14/2012 4:39:05 PM PST by SoftballMominVA
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To: Admin Moderator

better check my posts, I posted that link to the wrong guy a few times, best to remove them


146 posted on 12/14/2012 4:44:14 PM PST by RaceBannon (When Chuck Norris goes to bed, he checks under it for Clint Eastwood!)
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To: wagglebee; P-Marlowe

“It would be better for him if a millstone were tied about his neck and he be cast into the sea.”

That is what Jesus said about those who harm God’s little ones. Jesus is saying that God has a special place in hell for this kind of evil one.

It only seems right that there be something worse. Annihilation is too good for these haters. And regular hell is not bad enough. God knows.


147 posted on 12/14/2012 5:54:03 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: SoftballMominVA
very, very cruel on your part.

As usual, your belief that your stateroom is still dry robs you of moral clarity about the remainder of the Titanic and about the motives of those who discuss her true condition.

148 posted on 12/14/2012 6:53:39 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
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To: SoftballMominVA
very, very cruel on your part.

As usual, your belief that your stateroom is still dry robs you of moral clarity about the remainder of the Titanic and about the motives of those who discuss her true condition.

149 posted on 12/14/2012 6:54:02 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
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To: paul51

You may have misunderstood my original post. I did not say this was the work of our own government. Go back and reread it. I said acts of this administration, combined with the sordid and bloody history of Marxism, make those theories plausible to reasonable people.

As for how this particular incident will play out, who knows. I am not irritated or annoyed by people having their say about why they think this has happened. But conspiracies are supposedly secret, and it therefore is no conspiracy that the left will opportunistically use this to try and disarm law abiding citizens, as we already have mayor bloomberg calling for a national ban on guns.

In any event like this, people experience it differently. We are a news-ish kind of site, but we are real people too. We all experience revulsion at what has happened, and we all want to get down to the root cause and deal with it. Don’t let yourself be annoyed with good people trying to solve a bad problem. We’re all in this together.

Peace,

SR


150 posted on 12/14/2012 7:14:33 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Mr. Silverback
So, you sound kind of silly doing it today. Please stop.

Great analogy, of course it has nothing to do with the topic. Try again.

151 posted on 12/14/2012 7:14:42 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: Morgana

A K-4 school which makes the little ones 5-6 years of age. The killer was 20. A father at 14-15?


152 posted on 12/14/2012 7:19:05 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: metmom
How is the comment of *If ever a reason to homeschool????* EXTOLLING the virtues of homeschooling. You know, homeschool parents did not have to worry that their children were some of the casualties today. Kids are safer at home and it really is another valid reason to homeschool. Deal with it.

This is a crock of CR@P. You saw another opportunity to slam public education in light of a terrible tragedy and you took it. Never mind the suffering of the families, you have your agenda and you will push it no matter the suffering involved. I am certain that there is a very special place in Hell for your ilk.

153 posted on 12/14/2012 7:20:01 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
:Holy crap, you take it personally, don't you?

The insensativity of jerks in light of tragedy yeah I do. Let me guess you told WTC jokes on the night of 911.

154 posted on 12/14/2012 7:24:36 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: YoungBlackRepublican

Can’t make sense of insanity. And I can’t imagine how much pain a parent endures when a child is taken like this. I don’t think I would have weathered it well.

Well, making guns less available will not work, even if it COULD happen.

And “removing” people from society because they might commit a crime like this is a bit too police state too.

This kind of thing will come again and we will all still be scratching our heads wondering how someone could do such a ghastly thing. We cannot understand the workings of psychosis because we don’t have the capacity to process thoughts the same way a crazy person does.


155 posted on 12/14/2012 7:28:31 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I hope we're ready to get a real candidate next time. C'mon GOP! <BCC><)
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To: Mr. Silverback; SoftballMominVA

See your own post 135.


156 posted on 12/14/2012 7:30:13 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: verga

It wasn’t a joke, so you’re not even honest.


157 posted on 12/14/2012 7:31:40 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

And your illiterate.


158 posted on 12/14/2012 7:33:09 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: verga; rusty schucklefurd; Morgana; Moleman; cgbg
It is part of the liberal mentality to never let a good crisis go to waste. Never mind the tragic loss of life, push the personal agenda. I dare you homeschoolers to ask your clergyman what he thinks of your comments, actions, and attitudes.

Just like you aren't letting an opportunity to attack homeschoolers go to waste either. Maybe we should ask YOUR clergyman what he thinks of YOUR comments, actions, and attitudes.

159 posted on 12/14/2012 7:42:51 PM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
Just like you aren't letting an opportunity to attack homeschoolers go to waste either. Maybe we should ask YOUR clergyman what he thinks of YOUR comments, actions, and attitudes.

I showed him mine and yours. He thinks you are being opportunistic and that I am spot on. He is convicned that you are not Christian. I took the opportunity to show him some of your antiCatholic copmmetns in the other thread.Keep pitching the softballs and I'll keep knocking them out of the park.

And go back and look at the order of the thread posts, I wasn't attacking, I was defending the attacks by you all. Pesky things these facts.

160 posted on 12/14/2012 7:48:28 PM PST by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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