Connecticut school district on lockdown after shooting report at a Newtown elemen #11

[Darkman00]

Only those videos, maybe, that still imply that Ryan is Adam .... which is Not a true fact...

Those posted above are nothing really....

If they were something bad, YouTube would have removed them long time ago, more likely ...

 

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By fitsnews – July 6, 2013

South Dakota Now Has Armed Teachers

LAW LETS SCHOOL EMPLOYEES CARRY WEAPONS ON CAMPUS

While most states are moving to take guns out of the classroom, South Dakota is headed in the other direction.

As of July 1, South Dakota is the only state in the nation to permit school employees to carry weapons on campus. The law was actually signed several months ago but it didn’t take effect until this week. Obviously there are several districts across the country which have passed similar provisions, but South Dakota is the first to implement such a proposal on a statewide level.

Frankly we don’t see the controversy associated with this law … school employees wishing to carry on campus must first receive permission from the governing district and receive training from local law enforcement.

That makes sense to us … as does the deterrent/ protection this new law will provide against school shootings.

“A (Connecticut school shooter Adam) Lanza-like psycho entering a school would be greeted with the element of surprise,” writes Phillip Hodges at Godfather Politics. “He wouldn’t have any idea who was and who wasn’t armed. It would actually be better to have a few armed school officials carrying concealed than to have a school security guard who might as well have a target emblazoned on his torso.”

Read more: http://www.fitsnews.com/2013/07/06/south-dakota-now-has-armed-teachers/​

 

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Newtown police response to shooting under review

John Pirro

Published 11:40 pm, Saturday, July 6, 2013

NEWTOWN -- Video and audio from cruiser cameras of Newtown police who responded to the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School show officers did not enter the building while about 10 shots were fired by gunman Adam Lanza, says a source familiar with the State Police investigation into the shootings.

"There is no doubt there was some delay," the source said. "The question is whether it was significant or justified."

Some Newtown officers have been re-interviewed multiple times by investigators seeking to establish a firm timeline for the events of that morning, department officials confirmed. Those interviews, the source said, have touched a raw wound among Newtown officers, most of whom are still dealing with the trauma resulting from what they saw and experienced at the school.

Some Newtown cops, in conversations with troopers, have questioned whether they will be unfairly second-guessed for their actions.

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Newtown-police-response-to-shooting-under-review-4650757.php

 

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Guns killing children: An American epidemic

Kids are shooting kids. Daily News study reveals shocking numbers as the gun rights battle rages on: 40 children accidentally shot by themselves or other kids since Newtown. Add in adult culprits, and there have been at least 120 kids shot dead in all.

By Sasha Goldstein / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 10:00 PM
Updated: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 10:00 PM

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/guns-120-kids-newtown-article-1.1391208

 

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New York Yankees treat Newtown residents to a game

Posted on: 7:00 pm, July 7, 2013, by Staff Writer, updated on: 04:52pm, July 7, 2013

(CNN) — The people of Newtown, Connecticut, no longer want their sense of community to revolve around grief.

So about 4,000 of them took in a New York Yankees game Sunday, courtesy of the team.

Before the game began, the names of the 26 victims were displayed on the screen above center field. Shortly after, the Newtown Youth Voices, a chorus of 26 Newtown students, sang the national anthem. The Sandy Hook Fire Department and Newtown Police Department provided the color guard.

“Having reasons to come together as a community in celebration, for moments of enjoyment, is very important to us,” said Pat Llodra, first selectman for Newtown. “What happened to us is something that will never be forgotten but we’re learning to integrate it into who we are.”

Read more: http://fox2now.com/2013/07/07/new-york-yankees-treat-newtown-residents-to-a-game/

 

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Newtown-based 2nd Amendment group sues over CT gun law

Monday, July 8, 2013 by: Neil Vigdor

A Second Amendment organization that represents a host of Connecticut firearms companies and is based 2.8 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School is suing the state over a package of gun reforms it adopted in April in the wake of the massacre.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, located in Newtown, filed an 11-page federal lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Connecticut alleging that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and fellow Democrats who control the Legislature short-circuited the approvals process when the sweeping legislation was signed into law.

Read more: http://blog.ctnews.com/politics/2013/07/08/newtown-based-2nd-amendment-group-sues-over-ct-gun-law/​

 

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Wayland School Committee awards school security contract

By Susan L. Wagner
GateHouse Media
Posted Jul 08, 2013 @ 10:15 AM

WAYLAND — The School Committee recently voted to award a contract for $87,800 to Signet Electronics for school security improvements, such as cameras, intercoms, card readers, and electronic door hardware, at the town’s elementary and middle schools.

The initiative is largely in response to the Newtown school shooting last December, in which 20 elementary school students and six adults were killed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza.

Read more: http://www.wickedlocal.com/wayland/...ool-Committee-awards-school-security-contract
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Disturbing ‘Ask Adam Lanza’ blog lets users write in questions to Sandy Hook shooter

A deeply disturbing Tumblr page called "Ask Adam Lanza" runs as something of a fictional message board for those who harbor gross fascination with the quiet 20-year-old man guilty of one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

By Beth Stebner / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 2:30 PM

After last December's horrific shootings in the quiet Connecticut hamlet of Newtown, a nation is desperately searching for answers.

And now some on the blogging site Tumblr are even asking the gunman, Adam Lanza himself, why he murdered 20 children and six educators and getting responses.

"Ask Adam Lanza" appears to have been created by two teenage girls living in Florida.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...uestions-sandy-hook-shooter-article-1.1394021​

 

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Newtown Officials Defend Police Response

John Pirro
Source: The News-Times, Danbury, Conn.
Created: July 9, 2013

State Police are reportedly examining whether officers unnecessarily delayed entering the building.

Read more: http://www.officer.com/news/1098328...ers-defend-police-response-to-school-massacre

 

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Newtown officials and others defend cops' response

John Pirro

Published 9:37 pm, Monday, July 8, 2013

NEWTOWN -- Town and police officials and the family member of a victim are defending the Newtown police response to the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in response to a report that State Police are examining whether officers unnecessarily delayed entering the building.

Read more: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/pol...s-and-others-defend-cops-response-4653654.php

 

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Newtown Donations: Panel Suggests Breakdown Of $7.7 Million Between Families

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN 07/11/13 10:18 PM ET EDT

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Preliminary recommendations on $7.7 million in donations collected after the Connecticut school shooting calls for giving $281,000 to each of the families of the 26 children and school educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year.

The families of 12 surviving children who witnessed the Dec. 14 shootings would each get $20,000; two teachers who were injured would get $150,000 between them.

A community foundation has been tasked with dividing up $11.4 million that was raised with the help of the United Way. The foundation previously decided to divvy up $7.7 million to the families and survivors and to have committees decide on uses for the remainder of the donations, including whether to use some of it for future mental health care and other needs.

The recommendations were released before a Thursday night public forum at Newtown's Edmond Town Hall to discuss how to divide the $7.7 million. Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros, special advisers to a distribution committee appointed by the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation, made the recommendations.

"Is the money adequate? Of course not," Feinberg said. "No amount is adequate to deal with these horrors. Money is a pretty poor substitute but that's what we have. Solomon himself could not distribute this money in a fashion that would please everybody."

The $7.7 million is expected to be paid out next month.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/newtown-donations_n_3583475.html

 

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Sandy Hook Commission Wants Investigation Details

By Jeff Saperstone

Friday, Jul 12, 2013 | Updated 3:33 PM EDT


For the first time since May 3 the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission met on Friday in Hartford.

The two month break happened because of a lack of new information, according to commission chair Scott Jackson.

"Frankly we're waiting for additional information as to what actually happened which would be included in the state police report," Jackson said.

The group was put together by Governor Dannel Malloy to come up with recommendations in response to the school shooting which left 20 students and 6 educators dead.

Read more: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/...on-Wants-Investigation-Details-215277541.html

 

[Flinders]

Hi everyone :seeya: I have been a long time lurker but haven't posted. I live in Australia but have family over there and I'm always on high alert when something is in the news.

If I understand correctly, the police are being questioned about their response and they may be questioned about their ability and response.

I believe the closest person to the Accused was his mother and she was the first to be killed. She who knew him the best didn't have a clue that this would happen to her.

Does anyone know what the training procedure is for police in this situation?

I watched a documentary here and he actually liked attending this school and he loved his Mom.

Edited to add. His Mom took him to Scouts and other social activities but he couldn't make friends or socialise. Her last option was to put him and her in a social sport that is solitary. A shooting range is a solitary activity and I think when they were are the range, she thought she was doing her best to get him out and about. The dad here was long gone and it seems the brother was as well. My guess is that she favoured him because of his disability and the other brother felt pushed out. Disabled kids do get more attention than other siblings and I am angry at the Dad that he couldn't understand or explain to his son.

Sorry for my output or rant.

 

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Sandy Hook hero Dawn Hochsprung's daughter Erica Lafferty marries, includes mother in the festivities

Erica Lafferty visited Dawn Hochsprung's grave in the morning while wearing her wedding dress

Wore custom-made Converse sneakers as a tribute to her mother, who used to tease her about being a 'Tom Boy'

By Ryan Gorman

PUBLISHED:23:48 GMT, 14 July 2013| UPDATED:23:49 GMT, 14 July 2013


The daughter of a Sandy Hook hero has married – and her deceased mother played a prominent part in the wedding.

Erica Lafferty, daughter of Sandy Hook principle Dawn Hochsprung, married July 6. The bride made sure her mother was part of the day’s events.

Lafferty, 27, made a morning stop at her mother’s grave, wedding dress and all, to make sure the heroic woman had her place on the special day.

‘I wanted to let her know how much I missed her," Lafferty told People Magazine, ‘No daughter should ever have to do that on her wedding day.’

Planning for the wedding was one of the last things the two women did before the horrific December 2012 shooting that claimed Hochsprung’s life, along with dozens of others. The heroic principle saved the lives of countless children and teachers by confronting gunman Adam Lanza while the public address system broadcasted the sounds to the whole school, alerting them to the danger, according to media reports.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...erty-marries-includes-mother-festivities.html
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Parents work to prevent the next Newtown

That's the goal of a husband and wife who lost their daughter in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and are using science as a possible way of stopping the next tragedy from happening

July 14, 2013 12:09 am

Jessica Hill/Associated Press / Jennifer Hensel, holding a picture of her slain daughter, Avielle, and husband Jeremy Richman listen at a news conference at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn., a month after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.


By Tracie Mauriello / Post-Gazette Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- Families advocating for stricter gun laws have been a near-constant presence on Capitol Hill since the horrific school shooting six months ago in Newtown, Conn.

Jeremy Richman and his wife, Jennifer Hensel, favor gun control, too, but they are focused on other ways to reduce violence. Their mission is to prevent violence by finding biological indicators that predispose people to it.

It's a logical move for them. Both are scientists -- they met in a course called Recombinant Methods of DNA Technology at the University of Arizona -- and that compels them to find answers.

They have a personal stake, too. Their daughter, Avielle, a curly-topped 6-year-old, was among those who were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown along with 19 other children and six educators.


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/education/parents-work-to-prevent-the-next-newtown-695378​

 

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Thank you, Darkman. However, I feel safe in saying that I feel the whole story is utter hogwash.

 

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Newtown Donation Distribution Process Causing Families Even More Anguish

By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN 07/15/13 12:18 PM ET EDT

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- As a local group prepares to distribute $7.7 million in donations to families of Newtown school shooting victims, Connecticut's governor is expressing frustration with the process and wants an independent party to handle the remaining nearly $4 million in donations.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wrote a letter to the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation on Friday, saying he hopes families are not precluded from receiving additional money.

Twenty-six children and educators were killed in the massacre Dec. 14, and more than $11 million was raised afterward with the help of the United Way. The foundation was asked to divide the money and decided to divvy up $7.7 million to the families and survivors.

At a public hearing last week, some questioned the process for arriving at the $7.7 million for the families and why all the money wasn't going to the victims. Some victims' families have also complained the process has caused them anguish by putting them in the difficult place of deciding how to divide the money.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/newtown-donation-distribution-process_n_3599503.html

 

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New Missouri law allows gun-safety program for first-graders

Clare Kim, @clarehkim
6:07 PM on 07/15/2013

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a bill into law Friday that encourages schools to teach gun accident prevention courses to first graders sponsored by the National Rifle Association.

“The purpose of the Eddie Eagle Program isn’t to teach whether guns are good or bad, but rather to promote the protection and safety of children. The program makes no value judgments about firearms, and no firearms are ever used in the program,” the NRA website states about the program.

“It’s teaching a great safety message to children that could possibly save their life,” Eric Lipp, the NRA’s national manager of community outreach, told the Associated Press.

The legislation was filed on Dec. 13, a day before shooter Adam Lanza killed 20 students and six adults in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The bill was amended during Senate debate to make the gun-safety program optional.

Read more: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/15/new-missouri-law-allows-gun-safety-program-for-first-graders/

 

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Newtown School Police: 'It Was So Real It Didn't Seem Real'

Posted: 07/16/2013 7:30 am EDT | Updated: 07/16/2013 10:01 am EDT

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It happened seven months ago Sunday, but remembering details of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting still brings tears to the eyes of Lenny Penna.

"I'm hoping that, you know, it's been seven months, emotions won't set in," Penna said. "But it is what it is."

Penna, a member of the police department in Newtown, Conn., and his colleague Jason Flynn, spoke to an audience of about 800 school resource officers at the National Association for School Resource Officers conference Monday. School resource officers are police specifically trained for working as law enforcement agents and educators in schools. Before the Sandy Hook massacre, Newtown had two -- Flynn and Penna.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/16/newtown-school-police_n_3601282.html

 

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Families of Newtown Shooting Victims To Each Receive $281,000 In Donated Funds

Reuters | Posted: 07/17/2013 9:50 pm EDT

.. By Richard Weizel

MILFORD, Conn., July 17 (Reuters) - Families of 20 children and six adults killed in the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school each will receive $281,000 from the $11.4 million in donations, an oversight board said on Wednesday.

The Newtown Sandy Hook Foundation, which oversees the donations, also decided that the families of 12 children who witnessed and survived the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December each will get $20,000 and two teachers who were injured will split $150,000.

Of the total $11.4 million in donations raised with the help of the United Way charity, $7.7 million was set aside for the victims of what was one of the worst mass school shootings in U.S. history. The remaining $3.7 million was dedicated to a long-term community fund, a decision by the foundation board that has been criticized by some victims' families and Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/newtown-families-donations_n_3614198.html