Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Coalition of protesters held a vigil for Sandy Hook victims in Ridgewood on Sunday. The group also demanded legislators enact "sensible" reforms to prevent shooting deaths in the U.S.
Still reeling from the violent shootings in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, more than 50 village citizens took to the streets to let their voices be heard on gun control reform. Organized by three village residents, the peaceful protest met for a vigil on the one-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre at Ridgewood's Van Neste Square on Sunday. Approximately 70 people joined the vigil to hear speakers, including Ridgewood's Mayor Paul Aronsohn. Following the speeches and a march around Memorial Park at Van Neste Square, the participants were led by Bill Scher in a rousing rendition of "America the Beautiful". The vigil organizers reacted to the NRA suggestions that reforms would infringe on the Second Amendment and that teachers should be …
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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.
In an amazing 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 …
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Crisis counselors will be available Monday and police will increase patrols around schools, the Ridgewood superintendent says.
Ridgewood schools superintendent Dan Fishbein is urging parents that talk to their children about the deadly Connecticut school shooting that left 20 students and seven adults dead Friday. In a letter addressed to parents Friday afternoon, Fishbein said discussing the tragic events that occurred in Newtown, Conn. will help them feel more "safe and secure." A lone gunman, identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, killed his mother in her Newtown house before driving to nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and unloading shells into students and faculty. Lanza then took his own life. The Connecticut massacre is among the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. "Acts of insanity like this are not always preventable, but we do all we can to make…
James Bombace
4:24 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
Pass all the gun laws you want, it still does not address the issue and problem of an individual who is determined to kill others in large numbers. Until we all, as a country, are wiling to admit that guns don't kill people unless they are used by evil or mentally deranged people, the killings will continue. Once this country realizes its not the gun or bomb, as Tim McVeigh used, but the person … more ›