One year ago today...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[Agschmid]

1. Keep up awareness!

Kick

[JaneyVee]

2. I still have PTSD from that event. So so heartbreakingly tragic.

[laundry_queen]

24. Same.

At the time my 2 youngest took the same bus and everyday when I put them on the bus all I could hear was that one Sandy Hook mother who said, "I put 2 children on the bus, but only one came home." That quote still sticks in my head. There's no describing the horror of that. Not a day goes by that I put my kids on the bus that I don't think of that and hope that never happens to us or any other children, ever again.

[spanone]

3. one day ago.

[billh58]

4. K&R

for the growing awareness of Americans for the need for sane gun legislation to combat this public health issue.

[demmiblue]

5. I cannot begin to imagine the pain...

[lamp_shade]

6. Now I'm crying...

[Little Star]

7. Heartbreaking. k&r

[eggplant]

8. And twenty years before that (to the day).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Lo

Words fail me.

[tblue]

19. Never heard of that one.

My gosh. School shootings are becoming so commonplace. Will we ever get a handle on this? Or will we keep going down this road as if it doesn't matter?

[eggplant]

31. My alma mater.

I wasn't there that year, but I have a lot of friends who were. It is a very small campus. So 12/14 is one of those dates we remember. Then Sandy Hook happened last year on the 14th. Then the one yesterday in Colorado. Yesterday was particularly frustrating because I had spent most of the day thinking "man, tomorrow is going to be a drag", and then finding out that, no, *today* and tomorrow were going to be a drag.

Makes for a depressing December.

Most people don't remember the shooting at Simon's Rock (even though we were one of the first, even before Columbine) because not enough (!) people were killed for it to be called a "mass shooting". Which, I guess, is a good thing. But nobody remembers it, which is sad.

[niyad]

39. pbs knows

. . .



In the February 22, 2013 PBS Need to Know show titled "After Newtown" (see Newtown Mass Murder) journalist Maria Hinojosa reported, "In fact, in an interview with Newsweek in 2007 after 32 people were killed in the Virginia Tech shootings ... Wayne Lo said: 'The fact that I was able to buy a rifle in 15 minutes, that's absurd. I was 18. I couldn't have rented a car to drive home from school, yet I could purchase a rifle. Obviously a waiting period would be great. Personally, I only had five days left of school before winter break ... If I had a two-week waiting period for the gun, I wouldn't have done it.'" [5]

. . .

[classof56]

9. All the victims are worthy of our tears.

Can't seem to hold mine back.

[nolabear]

10. Ach... Still hard to believe.

[Stuart G]

11. When will they ever learn.................nt

[justhanginon]

12. I almost wish I hadn't opened the cartoon.

All of a sudden my picture seems to have gotten very blurry. Such unimaginable pain for those parents is just beyond comprehension.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. I understand...

It IS beyond comprehension.

[warrior1]

14. .

[ReRe]

15. .

[awoke_in_2003]

16. and not one thing

has been done about it

[Hoyt]

17. +100000000000000000

[lightcameron]

18. It's shameful.

People often ask, "How many times does this have to happen before something is done?"

My answer is always: zero. We don't need another one. Do something now. Period.

Well, we've had 28 mass shooting since Newtown. If THAT isn't enough, I don't know what is.

Shameful.

[awoke_in_2003]

30. Yet when a two bit actor...

from a two bit movie series dies in an auto crash, it seems to impact people more.

[tblue]

20. Some states have relaxed their gun laws.

It's sick. This country is mental.

[Ranchemp.]

21. States that have relaxed their gun laws

are only doing what their citizens have demanded they do, otherwise, those pols would be replaced with new ones willing to do what their constituents want them to do.

[laundry_queen]

23. I think those citizens who want relaxed laws are included in that poster's assertion. nt

[CreekDog]

26. got some numbers to back up that contention?

or just making it up as usual?

[billh58]

34. It's the NRA line

don't you know...? ALEC and the Koch Brothers paid good money for those corrupt politicians.

[Ranchemp.]

46. Corrupt because they vote the way their constituents want them to,

or are you just spouting your usual ?

[Ranchemp.]

47. You have numbers that say otherwise?

Or are you just making it up as usual?

[awoke_in_2003]

29. Yeah, I should have said nothing positive has happened...

it is truly sickening. I have grade school aged grandchildren, and that day hit me harder than 9/11. It was much more personal. You shouldn't have to worry about your kids while they are at school. Another sickening thing- some assholes wanted to call the anniversary "Guns Save Lives Day".

[madrchsod]

22. nothing has been changed...

and in many ways it`s worse.

a horrific day that should have never been.

[nevergiveup]

25. I am always at a loss for words

when talking about Sandy Hook. It is so overwhelming. The fact that so little has been done in response to something so unimaginably repulsive speaks volumes about the soul of America. I can never figure if it a result of cowardice or denial or maybe a little of both, but whatever, it is shameful and it has become a blight on our country.

[countryjake]

27. Thank you, California Peggy!

[malaise]

28. Too sad

[n2doc]

32. More, sadly

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024177592

[pinboy3niner]

33. K&R

[99Forever]

35. And the worthless scum in Congress did NOTHING about it.

NOT. ONE. DAMN. THING.

[NYC_SKP]

36. Recommended, with great sympathy to the families and community. nt

[Lifelong Protester]

37. ...---...

[passiveporcupine]

38. Thank you Peggy

One thing I really love about DU...people aren't afraid to say they cry about shit like this.

[niyad]

40. k and r

[bench scientist]

41. K&R

[blkmusclmachine]

42. N

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[blkmusclmachine]

43. G

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[go west young man]

44. The memorial.

http://mysandyhookfamily.org

[obxhead]

45. With rare local exceptions gun laws remain the same.

We will suffer this again.

Will it be your child next?