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.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
In a Friday morning press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong 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 American …
Our Patches across the country will take part in a Web Moment of Silence on Friday, and Gov. Tom Corbett has requested that state residents pause to remember those lost last week.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Gov. Tom Corbett has asked for a statewide moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. Friday, and Patches across the country will join in a Web Moment of Silence to remember the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary Schoolin Newtown, CT. The moment of silence was requested by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, who issued a proclamation calling on the citizens of Connecticut to observe Dec. 21, 2012, as a day of mourning. Malloy sent a letter to all the nation's governors asking them to observe a moment of silence in remembrance of the fallen. Patch sites across the country will mark the tragedy at 9:30 a.m. EST. Among other sites taking part in the Web Moment of Silence are AOL, Adobe, Foursquare, Hacker News, Duke University Jawbone, …
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Dec. 14 school shooting in Connecticut claimed the lives of 20 school children and six faculty members.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Principal Tim Plocinik, of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School, released a statement today to school community members regarding the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. "We're maintaining our ongoing safety plans and procedures, which is something that we've always kept at the top of our priority list," said school spokeswoman Jessica Cerchairo. Plocinik's statement is below: As you already know, a tragic event took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday morning. Like many, I’m feeling an unspeakable sadness and my thoughts and prayers go out to all the families involved in the tragedy that occurred in Connecticut. I’m sure that you feel the same way. It is times like…
