Saturday, December 22, 2012
How do we protect our most precious and vulnerable population against unthinkable violence?
I have a message for gun ban advocates and guns rights supporters... Shut Up. Just shut up. Seriously, enough! Stop yelling at each other. Stop posting on Facebook. It's not that your opinions are irrelevant; they aren't, but think about it for a moment... You are part of the huge, knee-jerk movement that has taken attention away from any real lessons that might be taken from the horrible tragedy in Connecticut. Just stop, for a moment, set your own agenda aside, and hear me out for a minute. Please. There is no simple solution here... More guns is not the answer. Fewer guns is not the answer. No amount of weapon legislation would have an impact on Adam Lanza. If he didn't have an AR-15? He still had two pistols. Every teacher in that …
Friday, December 21, 2012
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
In an amazing Friday morning press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its week long silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the …
Tucker Patch and other sites nationwide will participate in an online moment of silence in memory of the shooting victims in Newtown, Conn.
Tucker Patch will go dark at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 21. And so will many other websites across the country. We are all taking part of an online moment of silence in memory of the victims of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The event will last one minute. As of 6 p.m. Thursday, more than 130,000 people took the pledge on Causes.com. Websites wishing to participate can embed a green ribbon on their site, like the one you see in this article. Twitter users are also asked to use the hashtag #momentforSandyHook to show their support. Online entities can also visit webmomentofsilence.org for a JavaScript code to automatically darken their site at 9:30 a.m. The website will turn gray and a white box with a green ribbon will appear…
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Did you tell your children about the tragedy in Connecticut?
The first thing I did when I read about the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was weep. The second thing I did was tell myself that I would never let my children, ages 3 and 8, know that something so horrific had happened in the world that they live in. It would be easy for me to shield them from it. We don't have cable and we never watch the news with them in the room. My 8-year-old is very sensitive and we shield him from the many horrors of the world, regardless. I didn't want something so terrifying to even enter his consciousness. The fact the the tragedy happened on Friday gave me the weekend to ruminate on whether or not we should share the news with our sweet boy. It started to sink in that children at his …
Some top Patch headlines from around the region.
Mask-Wearing Man References School Shooting, Scares Workers at Roswell Daycare - Roswell Patch The Roswell Police Department responded to a suspicious person Monday afternoon, Dec. 17. Scott Baluss, a Lawrenceville resident, walked into a daycare center wearing a surgical mask over his mouth and nose. He allegedly stated, "don't worry I'm not going to do a Connecticut thing here," and then started laughing. For more on this story, visit Roswell Patch. Cobb Motorist Dies in I-75 Crash - Northeast Cobb Patch A Cobb motorist died in an accident that shut down southbound traffic on Interstate 75 south of Delk Road for a time on Monday afternoon. Cobb Police Spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said that Fatma E. Shalaby, 24, of Acworth, was pronounced …
william lee
5:21 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
Let me see if I heard the NRA spokeman correctly-what's needed to solve our violence problem is more armed guards? Nothing else? No need to run a background check on everyone who buys a weapon-why bother. Just pick up a "bushmaster" assault rifle at your local gun show and have at it. Too bad about the kids in Connecticut-just the price the general public has to pay for for the freedom to buy our… more ›