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Newtown Parents Organize To Fight Gun Violence (asked to "feed the fire" of gun control)
courant.com ^ | December 28, 2012 | JESSE LEAVENWORTH

Posted on 12/29/2012 5:20:18 PM PST by raybbr

NEWTOWN ——

Newtown United was born in the agony and confusion that followed the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The group of residents, including parents of children who survived, held its first meeting two days after the shooting as news teams from around the globe scrambled for reaction to the killings.

Group leaders are working to ensure that Newtown United grows and gains power long after the news trucks leave. Before the week was over, leaders had formed an executive team and started the process of becoming a nonprofit organization. Some members had gone to Washington to speak against gun violence

The group, organizers said, will use the traditional media, social media, outreach to churches, schools, government agencies and all other avenues to make "Newtown" a rallying cry against gun violence.

"We are just a few concerned citizens with day jobs trying to ensure that what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary marks the high-water mark for gun violence in this nation," Newtown United spokesman Rob Cox wrote in an email. "Ultimately we hope to provide a platform for the voices of the families most affected by this horrific event."

(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; guns; secondamendment
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To: sergeantdave

“You failed as parents to protect your children and relied on an uncaring, incompetent government to stop a slaughter. That’s a cross you will bear forever.”

Hard words...but none truer.


41 posted on 12/29/2012 8:43:58 PM PST by moovova
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To: sergeantdave
You failed as parents to protect your children and relied on an uncaring, incompetent government to stop a slaughter. That’s a cross you will bear forever.

Many of us conceal-carrying Newtown'ers have no choice but to obey the current law and leave our weapons at home when escorting our children to school - in what used to be a very peaceful and rare slice of old fashioned Americana. We hope to change that, and could use all the support (not negativity) we can get.

42 posted on 12/29/2012 8:46:09 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: moovova; 2nd amendment mama

See post 42.


43 posted on 12/29/2012 8:48:17 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: ASOC

From the link:

“We are here for the families,” said Cox, the editor of Reuters’ financial commentary website, Breakingviews.com. “We’re building a structure and a platform for the families when they are ready to express their views about how to meaningfully reverse the tide of gun violence.”


44 posted on 12/29/2012 8:57:25 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Psalm 83)
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To: DTogo

Understood. Godspeed in your efforts.


45 posted on 12/29/2012 9:15:53 PM PST by moovova
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To: raybbr

Once again, the statist Left protects its agenda with human shields.


46 posted on 12/29/2012 9:16:40 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Logical me

When you consider what freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution that have been polluted one has to wonder that America will never recover.

“It’s dead Jim”


47 posted on 12/30/2012 12:38:36 AM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: combat_boots

Holy F*ck!!! That site is something else. I posted a pro gun thread and within minutes the anti-gun posts started running. Nearly all the anti-gun posts were from the same few individuals. I posted at about 12a today and the anti-gun post are still streaming.(0103)


48 posted on 12/30/2012 1:09:58 AM PST by Ajnin (Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnocet!)
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To: Ajnin

This CT shooting STINKS like another crappy false flag operation. Search “Sandy Hook Hoax” and read about the many, many fake actors....


49 posted on 12/30/2012 6:05:26 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: raybbr

50 posted on 12/30/2012 6:40:10 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: DTogo

I too am a Newtown parent. Although I am don’t own a gun, I was furious at how quickly this tragedy was turned into an opportunity to vilify gun rights and gun owners. On Friday, I joined the NRA in a show of solidarity with all law-abiding gun owners.


51 posted on 12/30/2012 7:55:04 AM PST by Regina (pax78)
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To: ASOC
Follow the money - just who are these 'activists'?

I smell Soros.

52 posted on 12/30/2012 7:57:39 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Sarah Palin - "Republicans like Rove... are said to be concerned she will win.")
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To: Sirius Lee
I smell Soros.

In almost every initiative this regime uses to "Fundamentally Transform America" his old wrinkly carcass is behind the scenes funding it and pulling the strings.

53 posted on 12/30/2012 8:24:36 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: NurdlyPeon

Another false-flag op, a la the “Million Mom March”.


54 posted on 12/30/2012 9:13:05 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Regina

Liberal gun-grabbers exploiting this tragedy need to hear from us, loud and clear!


55 posted on 12/30/2012 11:18:14 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
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