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sophiar15 · 6 days

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Today 22/04 Adam would be 32 years old

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nikenya · 2 months

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Mother's day card for Nancy

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loukaiitis · 5 months

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Today marks 11 years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which took the lives of twenty children and six adults on December 14th, 2012.

Rest in peace,

Rachel D'Avino, 29

Dawn Hochsprung, 47

Anne Marie Murphy, 52

Lauren Rousseau, 30

Mary Sherlach, 56

Victoria Leigh Soto, 27

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Daniel Barden, 7

Olivia Engel, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Dylan Hockley, 6

Madeleine Hsu, 6

Catherine Hubbard, 6

Chase Kowalski, 7

Jesse Lewis, 6

Ana Márquez-Greene, 6

James Mattioli, 6

Grace McDonnell, 7

Emilie Parker, 6

Jack Pinto, 6

Noah Pozner, 6

Caroline Previdi, 6

Jessica Rekos, 6

Avielle Richman, 6

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Allison Wyatt, 6

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 11 months

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May 24th, 2022 was awards day at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Fourth grader Mayah Zamora won three of them – in math, robotics, and for making the honor roll. Not long after the ceremony, an 18 year-old walked into the school with an AR-15 style Daniel Defense rifle and started shooting.

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed. Zamora was airlifted to the hospital and has had more than sixty surgeries in the year since. Zamora's mom, Christina, says her daughter had been a fearless child before the shooting.

"Mayah shows a fear of this world that she had never shown before," she says. "Someone unexpectedly knocking on the door is a scary trigger for her."

Last year, the Zamoras became the second family to file a lawsuit against law enforcement, the school district, the gun store, and the maker of the weapon, Georgia-based Daniel Defense.

Federal law protects the firearms industry from lawsuits if their products are misused. But the law has exceptions, and the lawsuits allege that Daniel Defense can be held liable for what happened because of how they market their products.

"We need to speak up, for our daughter, for our family, for children in the future, maybe this will make a change," Christina Zamora says. "Nineteen children died. They were massacred. By an 18-year old boy. There's something wrong there."

In 2005, Congress granted broad immunity to gun manufacturers. But some legal experts believe exceptions allow gunmakers to be held partially responsible for these mass shootings if they deceptively marketed their products in violation of the law.

Georgia State University Law Professor Timothy Lytton, an expert on health and safety regulation, says Daniel Defense is notorious for its provocative marketing.

The lawsuits argue that the company violated federal trade law by unfairly marketing its products to civilians as tools for offensive, military-style operations.

"And they also allege that the placement of this AR-15 style weapon in video games allowed young men in particular to fantasize about use of this weapon in a way that would simulate the kind of violence that we saw in Uvalde," Lytton says.

After the Sandy Hook school shooting, some families of the victims made a similar argument in the Connecticut courts against the gunmaker Remington, which was in bankruptcy. And while the families won a seventy-three million dollar payment, it didn't create a sea change.

"It's not like a manufacturer came to the table and said, 'We admit liability here for the carelessness of our marketing practices.' This was a bankruptcy in which bankruptcy creditors paid out in order to get the company back into business," Lytton says.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case on appeal. So while gun control supporters cheered the settlement, the litigation left many legal questions unresolved. One big question is whether violations of the Federal Trade Commission Act even apply to the exceptions allowed under that sweeping immunity law. As a result, the Uvalde lawsuits against Daniel Defense could be the biggest test yet of the extent of the firearms industry's liability protections.

The cases have been filed in federal court in Texas, with the help of Everytown Law, an arm of the group Everytown for Gun Safety.

Daniel Defense didn't respond to an interview request, but has called the lawsuit politically-motivated and legally unfounded.

Mark Oliva is managing director of public affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for the firearms industry.

"Trying to sue a firearm manufacturer for the crimes committed by a remote third party would be the same thing as trying to sue Ford and Annhauser Bush for the deaths caused by drunk driving," Oliva says.

Even if the Uvalde cases clears the stringent immunity law and are allowed a trial, the courts would still have to consider another set of thorny questions, like whether the company's marketing is protected by the first amendment.

But Lytton says whatever happens, these liability cases put more focus on gunmakers.

"You only need one or two lawsuits to win to transform the whole industry," Lytton says. "If it got planted in Connecticut, and it flowers in Uvalde, that might be enough. And if it never takes root there, it's likely to pop up in Chicago. Or California."

Some states are passing laws that would make it easier to file these suits against gunmakers, but Oliva says the industry is pushing back.

"Are we going to bend to the idea that we're going to suffer death by a thousand cuts? I think your answer to that is we're challenging the law in New York. We're challenging the law in New Jersey. We're challenging the law in Delaware," Oliva says.

Back in Texas, the Zamoras want to make Wednesday's anniversary as normal a day as they can. Right now, they're focused on their daughter's recovery.

But they hope accountability will come, too.

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autisticunicorntcc · 23 days

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Adam Lanzas suicide pose pictures found on his PC. The first one is almost exactly how he commited it after he killed 27 people.

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techn0cel · 5 months

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Today marks the 11th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. On the morning of December 14th 2012, 20 year old Adam Lanza shot his mother 4 times while she was sleeping then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary school. 20 children and 6 adult staff members were murdered and the shooting came to an end when Lanza turned the gun on himself.

We remember…

Olivia Engel, 6

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Madeleine Hsu, 6

Catherine Hubbard, 6

Jesse Lewis, 6

Ana Marquez-Greene, 6

James Mattioli, 6

Dylan Hockley, 6

Emilie Parker, 6

Jack Pinto, 6

Noah Pozner, 6

Caroline Previdi, 6

Jessica Rekos, 6

Avielle Richman, 6 and her father Jeremy Richman (49) who committed suicide in March 2019

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Allison Wyatt, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Grace McDonnell, 7

Chase Kowalski, 7

Daniel Barden, 7

Victoria Soto, 27

Rachel D'Avino, 29

Lauren Rousseau, 30

Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47

Anne Marie Murphy, 52

Mary Sherlach, 56

Rest in Peace 🕯️

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deadpresidents · 1 year

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“Beautiful little kids...they had their entire lives ahead of them.” -- President Obama, December 14, 2012.

#Sandy Hook shooting #Sandy Hook #President Obama #Barack Obama #Newtown #These kids would be getting their driver's licenses this year

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destigmatizeme · 2 years

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“I think trauma stays with a person forever and it finds a way to manifest itself into all aspects of everything.”

— Jackie, a survivor of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

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bumblebeeappletree · 2 years

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Infowars host Alex Jones must pay a collective total of $965 million to the family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims for falsely claiming the massacre was a hoax — here’s the breakdown.

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comradekarin · 2 years

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i just want to take a moment to talk about the texas elementary school shooting that took place recently (a disturbing replication of the sandy hook elementary shooting except the victims of this massacre were predominantly hispanic). i’m not ashamed to say i cried because what can possess a person to harm children? to kill innocent children? why has the harming of kids become normalized? why are guns prioritized over the safety of children? how many more deaths need to happen before proper action is taken? my heart goes out to all the victims, victims’ families, and anyone else hurt by this tragedy. again, my dms are open if anyone wants to talk about this, anything related to it, or just need someone to speak to.

#texas elementary school shooting #sandy hook shooting #tw child death #tw death #tw gun violence #gun control #uvalde

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hellacioushag · 2 years

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i’m from a small town close to newtown, ct where the sandy hook mass shooting happened in 2012. the entire community was broken for so long because of the senseless violence that day. but still nothing changed. the death of 20 elementary school children did nothing to change this country. now almost 10 years later we’re faced with another 18 children dead... this was preventable. i’m so beyond angry and sad and scared.

i have a 3 year old niece with autism who recently started kindergarten and i’m terrified for her every single day. to think about her being in a situation like this... i’m struggling not to cry right now. i feel so incredibly powerless right now. but we aren’t powerless. there’s about 36 seats up for reelection this novemeber in the senate. out of those 36 about 23 seats seem to be either republican or a toss up. if you are eligible to vote and in a state where an election is taking place please vote. i cannot sit by for another year, for another mass shooting, and watch children like my niece grow up in a world where they have to accept they could be gunned down at recess. please vote.

senate seats up for reelection

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jwood718 · 1 year

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10 Years On: Sandy Hook

Schools in Newtown, CT are closed today in recognition of the anniversary.

“Every year when the time comes around, it’s just like it kind of hits you again...He just kind of thinks about what could have gone wrong [for him] that day and how it could still happen today because nothing has changed.” Michayl Wilford on Wilford’s brother and the anniversary of the school killings.

Joan E. Greve writing for The Guardian:

“Wednesday marks 10 years since the tragedy that devastated Sandy Hook, the village community that is part of the larger town of Newtown, and sent shock waves around the world. In the decade since, a reinvigorated movement aimed at ending gun violence has spread across the country...”

Mark Barden holds up a picture of his son, Daniel, on 4 October 2017 in Newtown, Connecticut. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

“’I will continue to have to adjust to the fact that Daniel’s gone forever for the rest of my life,’ [Mark] Barden said. ‘I don’t think I ever will, nor should I ever have to wrap my head around this, nor should anyone … [That’s] why we do the work we do at Sandy Hook Promise.’

Po Murray founded the gun safety group Newtown Action Alliance after her neighbor was identified as the Sandy Hook shooter, and she believes a ban on military-style assault rifles is critical. ‘We know first-hand what an assault weapon can do,’ Murray said. ‘Assault weapons are designed to kill as many people [as possible] in a fraction of time.’”

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut ends a 15-hour filibuster in 2016 by pointing to a picture of Dylan Hockley, a six-year-old who was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. C-SPAN

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The long-awaited Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial opened in November, nearly 10 years after the Dec. 14, 2012, school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. John Moore/Getty Images

Tovia Smith for NPR

"’Yeah, we're here,’ [Jennifer Hensel] sighs ‘I honestly think that's quite a remarkable accomplishment. I feel like I'm living again, which I wasn't for a really long time. And I needed to do that for my children.’

’To the rest of the world, it is definitely like, 'Wow! So much time has passed.' But to me. It's another f------ day that we don't get to have our kids, [Francine] Wheeler says. ‘It's just another day. And we just keep moving forward the best we can.’”

Jennifer Hensel waits for the school bus with her 8-year-old daughter, Imogen, and her 6-year-old son, Owen, on the first day of school this year. They share hugs, kisses, excitement and still some anxiety 10 years after the shooting. Tovia Smith/NPR

Jennifer Hensel’s daughter was killed in the school, then her husband killed himself.

“’As a neuroscientist, he devoted his life after the shooting to a foundation they set up in [their daughter] Avielle's honor to research the neurological underpinnings that make people more and less prone to violence...

‘That's the tragic irony of all this,’ says Hensel. ‘It makes me angry, actually.’

Because Jeremy was so familiar with the signs, she says, he knew how to cover them up. Even in retrospect, she says it's hard to connect the dots and to understand what was a symptom of his ongoing grief and exhaustion and what was a sign that he was at risk of suicide.”

Hansel testified in the trial of Alex Jones: “The absurdist lies [Jones] spread that the families were liars and the shooting a hoax meant to spur support for gun control tormented many people like Hensel and fueled relentless harassment by countless Jones acolytes...

She told jurors how conspiracists hid in the bushes around her house, taking pictures they thought would help prove that grieving parents like Hensel and Jeremy were just actors, and that the kids, like her sweet, spitfire Avielle, either never died or never actually existed in the first place.

‘She was such a big presence,’ Hensel testified, sobbing. ‘How do you how do you negate a presence? How do you do that? How do you do that?’"

Full story with audio

#sandy hook shooting #Mass Shootings #NPR #The Guardian

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 years

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The lives of roughly 26,000 children could have been saved since 2010 if gun deaths in the United States occurred at rates seen in Canada, according to a new analysis published Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

While firearms recently became the leading cause of death among children in the U.S., KFF found that they rank no higher than fifth in 11 similarly large and wealthy nations—behind motor vehicles, cancer, congenital diseases, and other injuries, and often trailing other conditions such as heart disease.

Guns—including accidental deaths, suicides, and homicides—killed 4,357 kids between the ages of 1 and 19 in the U.S. in 2020, or 5.6 per 100,000 children.

Canada had the next highest child and teen firearm mortality rate among high-income countries, at 0.8 gun deaths per 100,000 kids—seven times lower than its heavily armed southern neighbor.

According to KFF:

"Combining all child firearm deaths in the U.S. with those in other OECD countries with above median GDP and GDP per capita, the U.S. accounts for 97% of gun-related child deaths, despite representing 46% of the total population in these similarly large and wealthy countries. Combined, the 11 other peer countries account for only 153 of the total 4,510 firearm deaths for children ages 1-19 years in these nations in 2020, and the U.S. accounts for the remainder.

Firearms account for 20% of all child deaths in the U.S., compared to an average of less than 2% of child deaths in similarly large and wealthy nations."

The child and teen firearm mortality rate in the U.S. soared by 81% from 2013—when it reached a recent low of 3.1 gun deaths per 100,000 kids—to 2020, when it hit 5.6 per 100,000.

The U.S. is the only country among its peers that has seen child firearm deaths increase over the past two decades, climbing 42% since 2000.

Comparably large and wealthy countries' combined average child and teen firearm mortality rate declined by 56% between 2000 and 2019, from 0.5 to 0.3 gun deaths per 100,000 kids.

The 2020 surge in child gun deaths in the U.S. was "primarily driven" by an uptick in violent assaults, which are responsible for 65% of the nation's child and teen firearm mortality, KFF reported. "The child firearm assault mortality rate reached a high in 2020 with a rate of 3.6 per 100,000, a 39% increase from the year before."

There have been more than 3,500 mass shootings in the U.S. since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, including dozens since 19 students and two teachers were slaughtered at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24.

However, "not all firearm deaths are a result of violent attacks," KFF noted. "In the U.S., in 2020, 30% of child deaths by firearm were ruled suicides, and 5% were unintentional or undetermined accidents."

The child firearm suicide mortality rate is on the rise in the U.S., increasing by 13% from 2019 to 2020, 31% since 2000, and 89% since the recent low in 2010.

"Not only does the U.S. have by far the highest overall firearm death rate among children," KFF pointed out, but it "also has the highest rates of each type of child firearm deaths—suicides, assaults, and accident or undetermined intent—among similarly large and wealthy countries."

KFF added:

"In the U.S., the overall child suicide rate is 3.6 per 100,000 children, and 1.7 per 100,000 children died by suicide from firearms. In comparable countries, on average, the overall child suicide rate is 2.8 per 100,000 children, and 0.2 per 100,000 children died by suicide from firearms. If the U.S. child firearm suicide rate was brought down to 0.2 per 100,000 children (the same as the average in peer countries), 1,100 fewer children would have died in 2020 alone."

Although President Joe Biden recently signed into law a watered-down gun safety bill, Congress has repeatedly failed to pass legislation to meaningfully reform the nation's gun laws, thanks in large part to the opposition of Republican lawmakers bankrolled by the National Rifle Association.

#us politics #news #common dreams #2022 #gun rights #gun control #gun violence #tw child death #gun mortality rate #canada #Kaiser Family Foundation #twitter #tweet #Cynthia Cox #nra #national rifle association #sandy hook shooting #robb elementary shooting

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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Jury orders conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay Sandy Hook families nearly $1 billion

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion for the lies he spread about the Sandy Hook school massacre in 2012. Jones falsely claimed the attack was a hoax and accused a grieving parent of being an actor in the days after the murders. Attorney Jesse Gessin joined Amna Nawaz to discuss the verdict. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:…

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deborahdeshoftim5779 · 2 years

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As if the mass shooting in Texas on Tuesday 24th May wasn’t horrific enough, I now discover that-- YET AGAIN-- the police did not act quickly enough to save the victims.

Despite being urged by desperate parents to storm the building and confront the murderer, the police wasted 45 minutes waiting in the corridor because they believed the shooter was not active. Desperate children trapped with the gunman called 911, pleading for immediate assistance. As no help came quickly enough, those who survived the shootings pretended to be dead. One child even covered herself with someone else’s blood.

This is not the first time that the police have failed to prevent mass shootings. In the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting of 2018, the police once again failed to storm the school and apprehend the shooter. Even worse, the police had already been informed of the shooter’s madness and violent inclinations long before he launched his murderous attack.

Remember these shocking examples of police recklessness when people claim that good guys with guns stop the bad guys. In both cases, we see the ineptitude, poor communication, disorganisation, and blame-shifting of the police forces. Why? Because they have lost control of crime and disorder.

Lax attitudes towards gun sales and usage have not empowered law-abiding citizens with guns. Adam Lanza, who murdered 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, seized his weapons from his mother and shot her dead before his later killing spree. Lanza’s mother was technically a legal owner of several AR-15 weapons, yet she was unable to defend herself.

These lax attitudes have empowered only criminals. Lanza, and other worthless creatures, have often obtained their weapons legally and do not always present a history of openly violent behaviour. If they have, the police or intelligence services have often sat on this information, even if the suspect has been involved in violence beforehand. As a result of this ineptitude, real law-abiding citizens have lost their lives.

As far as I am concerned, these police officers should be tried for manslaughter of a degree. The call logs are horrifically tragic-- and damning. It’s time to ask the police why, with all their funding and weaponry, they have failed to prevent crime and disorder. They owe an answer to American children, especially the 19 children they failed to save.

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socialjusticeinamerica · 1 month

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#aaron rodgers #qanon #Sandy hook denier #never trump #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #school shootings #mass shootings #Alex jones #anti-vax asshole #Alex jones sycophant

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