20 Children Among 28 Dead In Newtown Elementary School Massacre
Gunman Opens Fire Inside Sandy Hook Elementary School Early Friday
December 14, 2012 7:25 PM
Connecticut State Police walk near the scene of an elementary
school shooting on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. (Photo by
Douglas Healey/Getty Images)
State Police Lt. Paul Vance said 18 children and 6 adults, including the school’s principal Dawn Hocksprung, were pronounced dead at that scene. Two other children later died at the hospital. One other person was injured, Vance said.
A 28th victim, later identified as Lanza’s mother Nancy, was found dead at her home near the school, CBS News reported. She was also a teacher at the school. A federal official also told CBS News Friday evening that all three weapons recovered in the shooting were, according to state records, bought legally and registered to the the gunman’s mother.
AP source: Suspect killed mother at their home
Boston Mayor Menino: Time For 'National Policy on Guns'
At the same time that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a statement going full bore after gun owners on the heels of the tragic school shootings in Connecticut, Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston issued a similar statement. It was just as strident and just as political:
As a parent and grandparent, I am
overcome with both grief and outrage by the tragedy in Newtown,
Connecticut. This unspeakable act of violence will forever imprint this
day in our hearts and minds. My heart goes out to the families impacted
by this senseless tragedy and the many others we have recently witnessed
across the United States. As a Mayor who has witnessed too many
lives forever altered by gun violence, it is my responsibility to fight
for action. Today’s tragedy reminds us that now is the time for action.
Innocent children will now never attend a prom, never play in a big
game, never step foot on a college campus. Now is the time for a
national policy on guns that takes the loopholes out of the laws, the
automatic weapons out of our neighborhoods and the tragedies like today
out of our future.
There is no law on earth that can take tragedy out of our future. The guns used today were apparently semi-automatic, not automatic. And as for the loopholes in the law, there is no evidence of any loopholes exploited by the perpetrator. As mentioned, Connecticut has some of the most stringent gun laws in the nation -- which is why Menino is calling for a national gun policy, since he clearly can't blame Connecticut's gun policy.
But all of that won’t stop the radical left from politicizing the shootings with minutes. And it hasn’t.
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