CT Against Gun Violence is asking everyone at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) and every Friday thereafter, to call state legislators and ask them to pass strong gun violence prevention laws. Here are some legislators they suggest you call: House Speaker Rep. Brendan Sharkey: 860-240-8577 House Minority Leader Rep. Larry Cafero: 860-240-0028 House Majority Leader Rep. Joe Aresimowicz: 860-240-8581… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Sandy Hook Elementary School
Letters to Newtown
What happens to the letters and cards people sent to Newtown after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings? You can read more here.… Continue Reading
Why our gun debate is off target
Leftover sends this, a Wall Street Journal piece by Dan Baum. I agree with some of it, and disagree with others, but this part rings particularly true to those of us here in Connecticut, home of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: The wrongest of wrong hands for guns aren’t necessarily those of criminals… Continue Reading
Buy this song from the children of Newtown
The children of Newtown — some of them from Sandy Hook Elementary School — have recorded “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to raise money for charity. You can learn more here.… Continue Reading
Is the answer to violence destroying violent video games?
Southington SOS, a Connecticut-based consortium, is offering gift certificates to any one who turns in violent video games this Saturday. The games will then be destroyed. Here’s their press release: TOPIC Violent Video Games Return Program Set Saturday, January 12, 2013 at Southington Drive In Theatre on Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike.… Continue Reading
Guest bloggers: Can we, the people, change gun policy?
Chester Fairlie is an attorney and a facilitator of the Survivors of Homicide support group in New London, Conn. He has long experience in victim advocacy in and out of the courtroom. Mr. Fairlie is a trained hospital chaplain and has taught a course in Victimology at Three Rivers Community College. John Aberg is a… Continue Reading
Thank you for the Newtown donations. Now please stop.
Town officials in Newton, Conn., the site of a horrible school shooting on Dec. 14 that left 20 school children and six teachers and administrators dead, have asked that people stop sending donations like teddy bears to their town. Though the gestures are appreciated, the town is overwhelmed. You can read more here.… Continue Reading
We cannot take the NRA lying down.
I wrote this for the Journal Register newspapers. I am shocked and saddened by the National Rifle Association’s comments since the Newtown shooting.… Continue Reading
But what should we do about Newtown?
Someone’s mentioned a march. I’m in. Here are some petitions started at Change.org in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Pick one. Pick them all, if you so choose. If you live in Connecticut, state Sen. Gary LeBeau (D-East Hartford) is reintroducing a bill he tried to get passed last year… Continue Reading
There’s a shift going on.
Ten lawmakers (most of them Democrats) are shifting their position on guns in America. And then there’s this: An investment firm that owns the company that manufactures the assault rifle used in Friday’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is selling its firearms portfolio. And this: The decline of the people who own guns in the U.S.A.,… Continue Reading