The likely scenario is ride the bus down, then get thrown under it when no longer useful to the Dem´s and the media.

That may sound cruel, but past events bear it out.

I work in a school and cannot imagine what this community has gone through. My sympathies to all. However, if their principal or someone else had a gun on them when this man stormed into their school there might have been a different outcome. If you fear that someone with a gun might invade your school you had better be armed with something more lethal than a stapler.

There were a few hundred thousand marchers (myself included) on the Mall yesterday to support Life. As usual, very little coverage by the govt media. The march today will be very thoroughly and positively reported.

Protecting schools isn´t the issue. Protecting innocents is the issue. If you arm the schools, then what happens at the grocery store? The skating rink? The soccer field? The birthday party?

We can´t turn the entire country into an armed fortress, and it isn´t healthy to raise children in an environment where they are being shepherded from one fortressed institution to the next. The bigger issue is how do we keep guns out of the hands of those few individuals who are at most risk to do something like this?

It isn´t rocket science. Look at the profiles. Nearly every mass shooter is a male, under age 35, with serious mental illness and access to weapons. Put additional restrictions, such as waiting periods, on those in the profiled group.

Little coverage of yesterday´s march for life.

Already lots of news commenting on the gun control march and it hadn´t even happened yet.

Those Newtown families should have been marching for life.

Their adoration of Obama, the man who would deny medical care for a baby born alive just makes NO sense at all.

I honor their loss, I don´t honor their solution.

What hypocrisy!!-----Yesterday 500,000 OR MORE.....Pro-life advocates marched, and not one network (except Fox a bit) covered it .-----That march for ´for the children´ too....it just wasn´t politically correct.---Shame, shame to all who turns a blind eye.....20 dead children is heartbreaking because we can see their sweet little faces.....50 million dead children is ignored because no one wants to see their sweet little faces.

Help to curb mental illness. Institutionalize all politicians.

They can have their 15 minutes of fame. But I´ve finished my 15 minutes of feeling sorry for them, now that they are attacking my Constitutional rights.

Those families are going to be further hurt when they realize that they and their dead children have been exploited by the communists for political ends.
This is about far more than the Newtown murders. It is about freedom itself. It appears that some Americans are against it.

Sheep in search of a shepherd. One cannot blame them. It is the nature of sheep to behave this way when wolves threaten. The trouble is that these sheep trust the government, i.e. fallible human beings, to be their shepherd. They are eager to exchange liberty for security - or what they imagine is security.

No talent is required for one´s loved ones to be murdered by lunatics. Losing someone in this way confers neither special wisdom nor moral authority. Sympathy and compassion for the sheep should not prevent anyone from recognizing their herd behavior as sheep behavior that is confused about the nature of human beings, the role and reliability of government, and the existential risk of simply being alive.

I suppose they´ll be riding in busses without spare tires?

we have brutally killed 30,000,000 of the most helpless and innocent humans on the planet over the past 40 years, the media ignored the hundreds of thousands of people in Washington protesting this holocaust. They will of course be out in force to cover this politically correct event hyperventilating over the terrible deaths of 20 equally innocent children. The hypocrisy is stunning.

The assumption is that anti-gun laws will work better than the anti-mass-murdering-children laws we have now. That assumption is incorrect. Those who are beyond the reach of reason are beyond the power of law to regulate. The criminally insane can only be stopped by force. To surrender your weapons is to facilitate their crimes. Disarming decency only empowers evil.

Who pays for all the travel & lodging before and after the march? Who organizes these events? How do people know where & how to sign up?
I´m serious here. Is there some kind of secret subculture that provides this info? Why don´t conservatives covertly sign up for free travel and then infiltrate the march holding "Shame on Hollywood" signs . We´ve got to beat them at their own game. The media will be *there*; we could *use* them... just wear lib clothes and use libspeak to baffle the media.
Or are we just too stupid to turn the tables on them when we have a chance?

By disarming all the potential good guys, gun control unquestionably contributed to the death
of these children, and they want more of it?

Low information voters, indeed...

Amazing that the picture shows someone carrying a sign: "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy."

During the American Revolution, roughly 1/3 of the colonists were Tories. 1/3 were Patriots. 1/3 didn´t care (including Daniel Boone). It seems today that things have not changed. 1/3 want authoritarian socialism.

Can I assume there will be a large contingent of Chicago residents busing in as well?

There is no dignity left in this country. The Democrats will use anyone for their agenda. Meanwhile the press make the mass murderers famous. Old rule about if someone badly needs attention they will take negative attention if it´s all they can get. We see only sensationalism from the press and that´s just aiding the insane and criminal.

Hey, Connecticut voters: Tinker with the laws of your own miserable state, if you must, but keep your ignorant, greedy, do-gooding paws OFF of my rights!
The insufferable arrogance of New Englanders is an unfortunate relic of the Civil War. Their unbridled arrogance is what caused the horrors and misery of Reconstruction. Their obsession with centralized bureaucratic solution to every problem is a big reason we are 16 trillion in debt, with another 40 or so trillion owed if we intend to honor future debt commitments. These Yankees have destroyed the original meaning and purpose of the constitution already and now they are coming for our Civil Rights. To hell with them.

Lets here from the people that were
shot but survived the Sandy Hook School shooting. That would be very impactful, where are they.

We don´t need to turn the country into an "armed fortress", #4. We just need to allow the citizens to be able to defend themselves and those for whom they are responsible.

Useful Idiots

"Those who hammer their guns into plows
Will plow for those who do not."
~ Thomas Jefferson

Schools are the current subject matter, grocery stores and birthday parties are included in being protected because with concealed carry - you never know who is ready and willing to defend themselves and others. Fortress is a specious argument.

As far as the mentally challenged being the scape-goat ~~ who is qualified to put them on a No Purchase List? The government? (How do you get on the No Fly list? How do you get off it?) Newtown´s Lanza stole the guns, before or after he killed his mother, he didn´t purchase them.

Purchasing guns is a lawful act. You fill out forms and go through a background check. Lanza did not follow the law and committed a criminal act by breaking into and killing children and adults in a No Gun Zone. They say he broke 41 laws - would he have stopped if there was a 42nd law?

i hope someone can explain how any of these measures would have prevented a mass shooting.

notice no one talks about the weapons used at Virginia Tech.

#4, the shooter at Sandy Hook was not legally declared mentally ill, and you need to be very careful about declaring people mentally ill. dont need no reeducation camps

Seems to me that a law against murder, with really harsh penalties, is a far better approach. So why don´t we have marches to support that idea?

#6: Stalin noted that one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

#10: To build on #10´s typically-good post, those involved are [willfully?] failing to see that their loss and finding proper steps to take [Step One: ask are there proper steps we can take?] are separate issues.

#20: IIRC, Lenin and Marx, Mao and Obama weren´t New Englanders. But each was a "meddler" in others´ lives almost beyond describing.

Thank you #4 for the missives from Cloud Cuckoo Land.

Surmise that the headline is misleading, per usual for AP.
100 of pop. 27,500 Newtown residents is ~.003%.

These people have been through a horrible experience, but they´re still just useful idiots to the democratic party.

#10--post of the month.

Beautifully written, #10.

And they´ll leave the place a mess.

#27

100 is actually about 0.3% of 27,550

Agree - government exploiting once again a tragedy - it is becomng a bad habit. I do not believe we have heard the whole story yet concerning Sandy Hook. Who was Adam Lanza? Did anyone know him? Why do they assume he killed the mother? If "Adam" was the perp. how did he manage to carry in all those weapons and magazines we are told were found on the scene [but no one can corroborate] when according to the picture that was circulated he was such a puny specimen? Just a smattering of questions that persist around this surreal scene. What was actor ´Robbie Parker´ doing there laughing ahead of his on- camera tear jerker speech just hours after his supposed 6 yr old had been brutally slain??

The gun didn´t line its own sights up on helpless little schoolchildren. And the gun didn´t pull its own trigger blasting those innocents away in a bloody rampage.

But there is a 1,000 to one probability that the mass murderer was a psycopathic druggie- like nearly every other school shooter has been. But with marijuana being the sacred cow in America, this kind of horror story will repeat itself in schools again and again.

Welcome to the World of Professional Propaganda! Obama´s new rad organization has hired a theatre group to organize & choreograph a protest! Radicals are being flown in from all the bastians of liberalism...

Who are they trying to impress? Each other?

The USA now has about 360 million people. It is impossible to identify every mentally deranged person who walks among us.
Just as we can´t prevent every house fire, every car accident. I wish we could, but we can´t.

Go ahead Newton residents...give up YOUR guns like the fools that you are...leave mine the Heck alone! MOLON LABE!

We refuse to find ourselves in the same position as the Armenians of WWI or Jews of WWII. Period. Read David Mamet on the issue.
Liberals can go to hell.