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HughBeaumont

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19. Noah Ponzer took 11 bullets at Sandy Hook.
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 10:42 AM
Oct 2015
Maybe the Dumbest Doctor in America can chew on this:

You’ll probably remember Noah. He was a happy little guy with beautiful heavily lashed eyes and a cheerful smile. In his coffin, there was a cloth placed over the lower part of his face.

“There was no mouth left,” his mother told the Forward. “His jaw was blown away.”

She put a stone in his right hand, a “clear plastic rock with a white angel inside.” She wanted to put a matching stone in his left hand but he had no left hand to speak of.

Parents of the dead children were advised to identify them from photographs, such was the carnage. But every parent reacts differently. Veronique Pozner did the most difficult thing. She asked to see the body. Zeveloff asked her why.

“I owed it to him as his mother, the good, the bad and the ugly,” she said. “. . . And as a little boy, you have to go in the ground. If I am going to shut my eyes to that I am not his mother. I had to bear it. I had to do it.”
Indeed, Dr. Squinty is... JCMach1 Oct 2015 #1
Non sequitur ryan_cats Oct 2015 #2
I agree. elleng Oct 2015 #3
We hold this truth to be self-evident. KeepItReal Oct 2015 #4
I hope he is joking olddots Oct 2015 #5
Absolutely the worst thing I have ever heard a presidential candidate say.... Punkingal Oct 2015 #6
His unfitness is exactly why the extreme right wants him. Kablooie Oct 2015 #7
I hope he is their nominee. Shoulders of Giants Oct 2015 #8
He won't be. 840high Oct 2015 #13
He is a fine example of a Glib Sociopath™ who went into medicine instead of business school. nt Electric Monk Oct 2015 #9
Bingo, someone finally got it. -none Oct 2015 #10
Yep - LiberalElite Oct 2015 #16
pretty bad when you sound nuttier than Trump and Jindal and Cruz Skittles Oct 2015 #11
All of them running for the republican nomination are a bunch of akbacchus_BC Oct 2015 #12
I know a lot of doctors learn to look at dead bodies with scientific detachment nxylas Oct 2015 #14
He's just creepy. Does anyone else see this? ms liberty Oct 2015 #15
Carson is a nut case Gothmog Oct 2015 #17
To paraphrase Che, the life of one human being is worth more than KingCharlemagne Oct 2015 #18
Noah Ponzer took 11 bullets at Sandy Hook. HughBeaumont Oct 2015 #19
OMG.... Punkingal Oct 2015 #20
So horrifying XemaSab Oct 2015 #22
Oh god, I can't imagine what it must have been like for her. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #23
It is frightening to contemplate..... DFW Oct 2015 #21
the man is vile napkinz Oct 2015 #24
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