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Sandy Hook shooting: What happened?
CNN ^ | 17 December, 2012 | NA

Posted on 12/18/2012 10:46:51 AM PST by marktwain

At the police station, dispatchers began to take calls from inside the school. Authorities say the first emergency call about the shooting came in at "approximately" 9:30 a.m.

"Sandy Hook school. Caller is indicating she thinks someone is shooting in the building," a dispatcher told fire and medical personnel, according to 911 tapes.

Police and other first responders arrived on scene about 20 minutes after the first calls.

Police report that no law enforcement officers discharged their weapons at any point.

The gunman took his own life, police said. He took out a handgun and shot himself in a classroom as law enforcement officers approached, officials said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; massshooting; newtown; sandyhook; sandyhookaccount; sandyhookpolice; sandyhookshooting; secondamendment; timeline
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20 minutes response time, in an active shooter situation. When seconds count...
1 posted on 12/18/2012 10:47:03 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Exactly, when seconds count the police are only 20 minutes away.

20 minutes is an eternity when gunmen are preying on unarmed children and adults.


2 posted on 12/18/2012 10:51:40 AM PST by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: marktwain

The whole thing just boggles the mind.

As does the fact that other than there being a shooting at the school, EVERYTHING the news media reported was wrong.


3 posted on 12/18/2012 10:52:59 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Truth is a Weapon

I think there is something wrong with the time line. This was a small town; it should not have (and I doubt) took 20 minutes. If it took 20 minutes, he would have gotten way more than the 26 children and teachers who did die.


4 posted on 12/18/2012 10:54:01 AM PST by merry10
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To: marktwain

20 minutes? Why? What took them so long? Unacceptable. In such a situation, 20 minutes is an eternity. All the more reason to allow teachers to conceal and carry in the schools! In fact, the training should be required.


5 posted on 12/18/2012 10:55:36 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: marktwain

20 minutes? Why? What took them so long? Unacceptable. In such a situation, 20 minutes is an eternity. All the more reason to allow teachers to conceal and carry in the schools! In fact, the training should be required.


6 posted on 12/18/2012 10:55:41 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: marktwain

If the state creates gun free zones then it has an obligation to provide armed guards. We do this in courts, airports and legislative buildings and other gun free zones but we don’t do it for our children.


7 posted on 12/18/2012 10:58:31 AM PST by Raycpa
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If you are ever in a situation where your life depends on it and you have to make that call, say this "Officer down!" They'll be there in a hurry.
8 posted on 12/18/2012 10:59:29 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Raycpa

Indeed. The state should be liable. If a company bans them on premises it should be liable for shootings as well. They’re demanding everyone go into a place that is a target. Well...


9 posted on 12/18/2012 11:01:00 AM PST by Monty22002
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To: marktwain
"20 minutes after the first calls"

Damn slow.

10 posted on 12/18/2012 11:04:53 AM PST by Paladin2
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Hochsprung heard loud pops. She, school psychologist Mary Sherlach and vice principal Natalie Hammond went out to investigate. Only Hammond returned from the hallway alive. She was wounded.

Rest in peace, but you simply don't investigate gunfire without a gun. These 'liberal' rules didn't even let them take a knife to a gunfight.

Idiots. One armed and motivated teacher, or guard at the door could have prevented this.

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11 posted on 12/18/2012 11:05:22 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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“If you are ever in a situation where your life depends on it and you have to make that call, say this “Officer down!” They’ll be there in a hurry.”


This is true to the power of 100.

It’s truthiness is unchallengable and should be considered scientific law.


12 posted on 12/18/2012 11:08:57 AM PST by Noamie
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How far is it from school to police station?

To firehouse?

And why would first responders even GO if they're just going to stand around?

Just a couple of questions I have

13 posted on 12/18/2012 11:11:00 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: marktwain

And I am pretty sure that nothing else that urgent was going on at the time. Who was behind the slow response time.....Slowpoke Rodriguez?


14 posted on 12/18/2012 11:11:47 AM PST by Merta (Like Joe Jones, but in reverse, I talk too much.)
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To: knarf

The kids were told to run to the firehouse. I doubt it was that far away.


15 posted on 12/18/2012 11:12:25 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline, (it's back). 2008, the Decline of America)
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To: marktwain
So, what about the second man dressed in black who was arrested in the woods behind the school according to the early stories? The same one who multiple sources quoted as saying "I didn't do it." How does he fit in? Or did he in fact not exist?

It is hard to know for sure.

16 posted on 12/18/2012 11:15:36 AM PST by jboot (This isn't your father's America. Stay safe and keep your powder dry.)
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To: marktwain
Here is a transcript of the 911 calls of the Connecticut shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school.

17 posted on 12/18/2012 11:16:24 AM PST by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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To: merry10
According to MapQuest the Newtown Police Station (3 Main St, Newtown, CT 06470) is 5 mins / 2.15 miles from the school (Sandy Hook School, 12 Dickenson Dr, Sandy Hook, CT 06482).
18 posted on 12/18/2012 11:17:56 AM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: machogirl
The kids were told to run to the firehouse. I doubt it was that far away.

Supposedly it was right across the street.
Wonder if it was a volunteer type fire department with nobody on duty?
If it was actually a 20 minute response time, that's way too long for the cops in a small town to get there.

19 posted on 12/18/2012 11:20:10 AM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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"Police and other first responders arrived on scene about 20 minutes after the first calls."

Nice.

Good thing the school was a Gun Free Zone. That way, these poor people had no chance of protecting themselves from a gunman.

20 posted on 12/18/2012 11:26:00 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Just 16 percent of Americansbelieve a better economic future awaits their children when they grow up)
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