Sandy Hook Anniversary
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Obama honors Sandy Hook victims while renewing call for tighter gun lawsPresident Obama on Saturday honored the victims of the fatal Sandy Hook elementary school shootings while renewing his call for tighter gun control and more spending on mental-health care, on the anniversary of the tragic event.
“We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds,” the president said in his weekly radio address, before he and first lady Michelle Obama honored the shooting victims and their families in a moment of silence....
From the Left
On Newtown anniversary, Obama says ‘these tragedies must end’One year after a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 first-graders and six adults, devastating a community and shocking the nation, President Barack Obama said we haven’t done enough to keep our country safe.
"More than the tragedy itself, that’s how Newtown will be remembered," the President said Saturday in his weekly address.
Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama marked the anniversary Saturday by lighting 26 candles at the White House - one for each of the victims at Newtown - and a moment...
From the Left
Progress On Gun Control Seemed Inevitable After Sandy Hook, But Apparently That Was WrongIn the immediate aftermath of the shooting of 20 students and six school staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., no one knew or could have imagined the magnitude of what had transpired.
Thirty minutes passed between the incident and the first media reports that police were responding to a school shooting. Details were sketchy. The first injuries described in the press were those of a teacher, said to have been shot in the foot -- a seemingly minor wound that gave a momentary sense of relief...
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