Posted on 01/29/2013 10:25:22 AM PST by DTogo
HARTFORD — Some came dressed in camouflage and others in suits.
Some wore National Rifle Association hats, casual clothing or bright power ties and sat next to each other, but on starkly different sides of the raging national argument on gun control.
Both groups, totaling about 1,500 people, were frisked upon entering the Capitol complex Monday, then applauded their supporters during daylong hearings on the aftermath of the Newtown massacre.
As members of a General Assembly task force took hours of testimony, Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe joined a dozen local law enforcement executives from throughout the country at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss gun control.
The same article appears here in the ctpost.com
Archived vidoe of the day's testimony is available HERE.
CT FReeper ping!
Seems like a very well balanced article at the link. Even presented the views of those opposed to gun control first instead of relegating those views to a biased after thought as in common in biased news articles. Also seriously quoted both sides instead of reporting any absurd statements that might have been made.
If he lost a kid, i feel sorry for him. But that’s as far as it goes. If he thinks that because of that, i must defer to him on policy questions, he needs to be heckled. (if he even was)
And realistically, extreme grief is almost a form of mental illness in many people. They are quite literally driven solely on emotion and cannot think straight. His legislative thought is rendered essentially meaningless by his temporary insanity IMO.
I think it’s really odd that the name of the chief is the same as the man that killed the most US children in 1 incident in Bath, MI.
Is it possible to be...
“ Father of a Newtown victim “
And a traitor as well?...
It’s not about guns. It’s about people whose “value system” doesn’t see anything wrong with killing an innocent person. It’s the lack of respect for life. It’s the lack of a clear conviction that there is right and there is wrong. It’s the current liberal crusade against free will. It’s the elimination of the death penalty. It’s the communist thought pattern - there is no right and wrong, just what is expedient.
Yes—misleading. They were apparently answering Heslin’s question—not heckling him.
And realistically, extreme grief is almost a form of mental illness in many people. They are quite literally driven solely on emotion and cannot think straight. His legislative thought is rendered essentially meaningless by his temporary insanity IMO.
Very well put. I have read that married couples often divorce after the death of a child. In many cases, each blames the other, or themselves, and simply cannot deal with it and end up splitting up. My brother-in-law lost his teen-aged son to a motorcycle accident right down the street where they lived. He could hear the accident as it occurred. The wife could not cope with it. In a short time, she went into a state resembling dementia (she was in her 40's). It was as if the grief was so great, her brain just fried.
About 15 years ago a woman called a local radio talk show and said SUV's should be banned.
Her son was killed after his car was hit by a SUV. Out of respect the host of the show did not interrupt her to ask questions for a couple of minutes.
Finally the host ask the woman what caused the accident. To this question she replied that her son ran a stop sign and was hit by a SUV which had the right of way.
No, I’m not interested.
The perp DID NOT use an AR-15 as the article says.......
Where does the article say that?
The video lost me when it said that flying saucers were seen in the area...
I was interested to see the pictures of the boarded up school and surprised that they were able to get that close without being told to leave.
Only later did I notice that the video was edited by James F. Tracy, PhD and tenured college professor, who can’t tell the difference between an AR15 from a shotgun.
Yes he did.
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