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Paper publishes database of gun owners in two New York counties
A newspaper in New York state published on Monday an extensive database of gun owners in Westchester and Rockland counties, saying the information was in the public’s interest following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The Journal News immediately found itself at the center of a firestorm of controversy over the…
Connecticut cops give Newtown colleagues the day off for Christmas
Police officers from around the state of Connecticut banded together on Tuesday to give the gift of rest to their colleagues in Newtown, pitching in to give the city’s entire department the day off. According to CNN, the campaign, organized by authorities in neighboring towns, was designed to offer relief…
Pennsylvania man cites Newtown while ripping down atheist holiday display
A banner that was recently hung in a public space by a local atheist group in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania got chopped down this week by a young man who cited the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut as his reason. Local news channel WNEP-TV filmed the man, who identified himself as Joe McDonald,…
Newtown massacre fuels bullet-proof backpack sales
On the heels of the deadly shooting tragedy in Connecticut, parents’ anxiety is driving a surge in sales of bullet-proof backpacks, in the hope the armored bags can give their kids a safety edge. For under $300, the company Amendment II — a play on the Second Amendment to the…
Camden gun owners turn in record 1,100 guns after Connecticut shootings
The New Jersey Attorney General’s office said on Tuesday that a record 1,137 firearms had been turned in as part of cash-for-guns program in just two days after last week’s shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. At least five semi-automatic assault rifles were among the weapons collected at the “Guns for Cash”…
After five days of silence, NRA offers ‘meaningful contributions’ to end gun violence
The National Rifle Association on Tuesday released a much-anticipated statement regarding the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The gun lobby promised to “offer meaningful contributions” to ensure the mass shooting, which left 20 young children dead, would never happen again. The horrific incident has renewed debate over the…
School resumes in Newtown, but not for survivors
Most children in Newtown returned to classes Tuesday for the first time since last week’s massacre, but survivors of the shooting stayed at home and their school remained a crime scene. In a thin drizzle, yellow school buses once again rolled through the Connecticut town, where some 5,400 children are…
Newtown buries first two of 20 children killed in horrific school shooting
Three days after it suffered one of the worst mass shootings in US history, Newtown in Connecticut has begun the dreadful process of burying the 27 victims on Monday, starting with two of the young children to be killed in their classrooms at Sandy Hook elementary school. One of the…
Tennessee pastor: Mass shootings because schools teach evolution and ‘how to be a homo’
A Tennessee pastor on Sunday told his congregation that the number of mass shooting were escalating because of schools were government “mind-control centers” that taught “junk about evolution” and “how to be a homo.” Old Paths Baptist Church Pastor Sam Morris began speaking about last week’s school massacre in Newtown,…
World leaders express shock over Newtown, Connecticut shooting
World leaders expressed shock and horror after a gunman massacred 20 small children and six teachers in the US state of Connecticut, in one of the worst school shootings in history. “I would like to express my shock at the tragic shooting at the school in Connecticut today,” European Union…
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