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The Newtown Tragedy

douglas228 Wrote: Dec 15, 2012 10:44 PM

all we should be doing is trying to help the families and children from that community, and finally realize we have the right and the DUTY to self protection and to the protecting of all our families and friends . I would have shot that person in and instant and slept like a baby. But I cant even understand how someone could shoot 6 and 7 year old children I could never understand that kind of monster

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The Newtown Tragedy

As the mother of five-year-old twins in a small town not too far from New York city, yesterday's events in Newtown hit close to home -- literally and figuratively. It's hard to imagine the depths of shock, sorrow and anguish rippling throughout our community in the wake of yesterday's hideous crime.

It is a terrible, terrible thing to be reminded, once again, of how powerful, how senseless and how ugly the face of evil can seem. It is terrible even to have to acknowledge that such evil exists in the world. But it does, and there's no use in...