Sandy Hook Panel Set to Begin Review of School Shooting

Newsmax ^ | January 24, 2013 | Melanie Grey

[Uncle Chip]

The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission will begin its grim work Thursday with an update on the police investigation into the Newtown, Conn. school massacre and presentations on the Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings.

According to the Hartford Courant, 16 experts, appointed by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, will convene for the first of a series of meetings to review the Dec. 14 mass killing last year and propose improvements to current policies related to student safety, gun violence, and mental health.

On Dec. 14, a lone gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, killing 20 children and six adults before taking his own life. Only the 2007 school shooting at Virginia Tech, where 32 students and staff members were killed, resulted in a greater loss of life caused by a single shooter.

The panel's first witness will be Danbury Assistant State's Attorney Stephen J. Sedensky, who will give one of the few official statements about the police investigation.

The Courant reported that former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, who was Denver district attorney at the time of the 1999 Columbine attack and a member of the Columbine Review Commission, will also speak. He will be joined by the University of Virginia's Richard Bonnie, a consultant to the Virginia Tech Review Panel and chairman of the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform.

The meeting, to be broadcast live on the Connecticut Network, coincides with the introduction of federal gun control legislation in Washington.

Members of the Connecticut delegation, along with congressional leaders, will propose banning assault weapons and ammunition magazines with more than 10 rounds.

"There is a fight coming,'' Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat, told the Courant.

[Boogieman]

No, I was talking about the one posted in #10, the infamous Pete Williams NBC report.

[LikeARock]

Where we disagree I guess is that I hope this kind of thinking is not “run of the mill”, and I think the emotions involved are being repressed. The thing about this sort of “skepticism” that gets to me is that it stops exactly where they want it to stop; it only exists to serve the purpose of the paranoia, and, being based on lack of reason, can’t be appealed to with facts. It’s like trying to argue a person out of a schizophrenic state.

[Uncle Chip]

I made this brief list of links that answer the most asked questions regarding Sandy Hook. I just got tired of going back and pulling these up and wanted them all in one place. Please add whatever I missed:

Interview with one of two mothers who witnessed the kids running down to the firehouse, the Lanza’s Honda doors opened [indication that it had already been searched], the broken glass at the front door, the unusual quiet just before gunshots rang out from inside the school, and the kids subsequently evacuating the building:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptbd6qRY358

Video at 0:24 of the broken glass front door:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/us/connecticut-shooting-adam-lanza-barber/index.html

Police dispatch report along with video of the broken glass front window at 0:50 on the video:

http://www.frequency.com/video/broken-glass-at-front-of-sandy-hook/72154872/-/5-85140

Police Dispatch of the Sandy Hook shooting:

http://nhregister.com/articles/2012/12/14/news/doc50cc0897adc1a203744261.txt?viewmode=2

STATE POLICE IDENTIFY WEAPONS USED IN SANDY HOOK

http://www.ct.gov/despp/cwp/view.asp?Q=517284&A=4226

Details of shooting at Wikipedia with other resources and links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting

[familyop]

"The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission"

As America sees it, the morbid joke continues.

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for the response. I haven’t seen it (the video in post 10), but I would agree that it was BS without even looking.

Now, other videos I have seen, including some lengthy RAW helicopter footage, at least give one a chance to come up with their own opinion.

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Anyway, my bad. I didn’t fully read back to see who or what you were referring to and assumed it was the most recent post with a video, and I was wrong.

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for compiling all those links in one spot. They will be a good resource for everything trying to piece this puzzle together.