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Carlszone
Number of posts : 174 Location : Norfolk Va Registration date : 2013-10-22
| Subject: Newtown Marks Anniversary Of School Killings Sat Dec 14, 2013 1:19 am | |
| CNN: Newtown Marks Anniversary Of School Killings By Ralph Ellis, CNN Updated 12:29 AM EST, Sat December 14, 2013 STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Town leaders have asked the media to respect town's privacy One year ago, Adam Lanza killed 20 young children, 6 adults No motive has been uncovered for Lanza's actions (CNN) -- On Saturday, the people of Newtown, Connecticut, will remember a tragedy that convulsed the nation one year ago.
A socially awkward young man walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School with a rifle on December 14, 2012. Adam Lanza gunned down 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at the school. Then he killed himself.
The people in this community of 28,000 in the southwest part of the state hope to grieve in private. Town leaders have asked the news media to stay away. "There's an emotional and economic toll that we pay when the media descends on us, so we ask for your forbearance after today and respectfully request that you allow us a time of peace and quiet," said Pat Llodra, the town's first selectman, a role similar to that of mayor.
Many news organizations said they'll honor that request by not reporting in the city of Newtown itself, but that was before Friday's shooting at Arapahoe High in Colorado. The news value of Newtown has gone up. CNN will air a documentary about Newtown at 7 p.m. ET on Saturday.
Nobody knows why Lanza, 20, killed the children and adults at the school, his mother at the home they shared, and himself. He had attended the school briefly, but that was years ago.
Last month, Connecticut's state attorney's office released its official report that tried to piece together what happened. The investigation provided some insights into the life and actions of the gunman, but his motive remains a mystery.
The report suggested that improving the delivery of mental health care to those with chronic mental illness may be an important element in reducing certain acts of violence, and that mass shooters are not "enthralled" with violent video games.
The unanswered questions deepen the tragedy of Newtown, the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, following the April 2007 slaying of 32 people at Virginia Tech.
The shootings also caused a renewal of the debate over gun control. | |
| | | David F
Number of posts : 162 Age : 72 Location : Florida Registration date : 2013-10-19
| Subject: Re: Newtown Marks Anniversary Of School Killings Sat Dec 14, 2013 8:29 am | |
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| | | Carlszone
Number of posts : 174 Location : Norfolk Va Registration date : 2013-10-22
| Subject: Re: Newtown Marks Anniversary Of School Killings Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:02 am | |
| Yeah, that was a heart wrencher!
I started covering the first reports about 5 minutes after the first news articles and stayed w/it for days until I couldn't take it anymore. But I gotta give it to the Web-Nuts folks, no one politicized that thread. There were a few mild references to gun laws but for the most part the posts stood as a worthy memorial to those young angels & teachers slain.
May God rest their souls & bring comfort to the families as this anniversary day continues.
Amen... | |
| | | Carlszone
Number of posts : 174 Location : Norfolk Va Registration date : 2013-10-22
| Subject: Newtown Quietly Reflects On Anniversary Of Shooting Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:11 am | |
| USA Today: Newtown Quietly Reflects On Anniversary Of Shooting
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY 10:53 a.m. EST December 14, 2013
A year after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn., bells tolled across the town at 9:30 a.m. Saturday as the small community planned a day of quiet reflection with private memorial services.
The bells rang 26 times as names of each of the victims were read at St. Rose of Lima church in Newtown, one of several houses of worship that was holding private services Saturday for a community still grieving for the 20 children and six educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
President Obama and the first lady marked the anniversary of the shooting at the White House Saturday by lighting 26 candles and bowing their heads for a moment of silence.
In his weekly address Saturday, Obama asked Americans to consider their role in preventing future violence, saying the country has not done enough to make communities safer since the tragedy. Parents of children killed in the tragedy lent their voices to efforts to prevent such violence from happening again but more action is needed to stop violence, he said.
"We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily," Obama said. "We have to do more to heal troubled minds. We have to do everything we can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved and valued and cared for."
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy asked for houses of worship around the state to ring their bells at 9:30 a.m. and called for flags to be lowered to half-staff around the state.
St. Rose of Lima will host a service that will include the dedication of a memorial arch and the ringing of peace bells that also were rung at Virginia Tech after the mass shooting there in 2007 and in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Newtown officials have called for privacy and asked town residents to honor the victims through acts of service and kindness. At a joint appearance earlier this week in Newtown, some of the victims' families urged people to find ways to give back to their own communities.
"In this way, we hope that some small measure of good may be returned to the world," JoAnn Bacon, whose 6-year-old daughter, Charlotte, was killed at Sandy Hook.
The town had no formal events planned for Saturday, and officials have discouraged the news media from coming to Newtown.
"We are trying to respect the world's interest in us, but we also have a real need in our community to gain a foothold," First Selectman Pat Llodra said.
The gunman, Adam Lanza, killed his mother inside their Newtown home on Dec. 14, 2012, before driving to the school, where he carried out his rampage. He killed himself as police arrived.
Contributing: Associated Press | |
| | | JUST HENRY Admin
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| Subject: Re: Newtown Marks Anniversary Of School Killings Sat Dec 14, 2013 3:47 pm | |
| The mother Needed something there !
No one will ever Know what she did to that boy . _________________ | |
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