Is Obama Already Politicizing Sandy Hook Shooting?

[American_Jihad]

Is Obama Already Politicizing Sandy Hook Shooting?

12/14/12
by Joel B. Pollak

"We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this regardless of the politics." - President Barack Obama, addressing reporters on the Sandy Hook mass shooting today.

He wiped away a tear. I wept with him. And then... that.

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Regardless of the politics?

Is Obama Already Politicizing Sandy Hook Shooting?

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[Glensather]

No, he's saying that we need to set aside politics in the wake of tragedy.
It's the first sensible thing he's said in a long time. I'm willing to agree with him on this.

Do I know it'll turn into another anti/pro gun control debate? Yes. But not right now.

 

[thanatos144]

Never let a tragedy go to waste right progressives?

 

[waltky]

Now the big question - Why?...

Police, world wonder about Conn. shooting motive
15 Dec.`12 — The massacre of 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, was driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims.

Investigators were trying to learn more about Adam Lanza and questioned his older brother, who was not believed to have been involved in the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary. Police shed no light on the motive for the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. In tight-knit Newtown on Friday night, hundreds of people packed St. Rose of Lima Church and stood outside in a vigil for the 28 dead — 20 children and six adults at the school, the gunman's mother at home, and the gunman himself, who committed suicide. People held hands, lit candles and sang "Silent Night." "These 20 children were just beautiful, beautiful children," Monsignor Robert Weiss said. "These 20 children lit up this community better than all these Christmas lights we have. ... There are a lot brighter stars up there tonight because of these kids."

Lanza is believed to have suffered from a personality disorder and lived with his mother, said a law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation. Lanza shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, drove to the school in her car with at least three of her guns, and opened fire in two classrooms around 9:30 a.m. Friday, law enforcement officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. A custodian ran through the halls, warning of a gunman, and someone switched on the intercom, perhaps saving many lives by letting them hear the chaos in the school office, a teacher said. Teachers locked their doors and ordered children to huddle in a corner, duck under their desks or hide in closets as shots reverberated through the building.

The well-liked principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was believed to be among the dead. A woman who worked at the school was wounded. Maryann Jacob, a clerk in the school library, was in there with 18 fourth-graders when they heard a commotion and gunfire outside the room. She had the youngsters crawl into a storage room, and they locked the door and barricaded it with a file cabinet. There happened to be materials for coloring, "so we set them up with paper and crayons." After what she guessed was about an hour, officers came to the door and knocked, but those inside couldn't be sure it was the police. "One of them slid his badge under the door, and they called and said, 'It's OK, it's the police,'" she said.

A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said investigators believe Lanza attended the school several years ago but appeared to have no recent connection to it. It was not clear whether he held a job. At least one parent said Lanza's mother was a substitute teacher at the school. But her name did not appear on a staff list. And the official said investigators were unable to establish any connection so far between her and the school. Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, of Hoboken, N.J., was questioned, and investigators searched his computers and phone records, but he told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010.

More Police, world wonder about Conn. shooting motive - Yahoo! News

See also:

Connecticut Shooter Adam Lanza: Quiet, Bright, Troubled
Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 kids and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school Friday, was very bright, say neighbors and former classmates, but he was also socially awkward and deeply troubled.

"[Adam] was not connected with the other kids," said family friend Barbara Frey. A relative told ABC News that Adam was "obviously not well." On Friday morning, Lanza shot his mother Nancy in the face at the home they shared in Newtown, and then drove her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Dressed in black combat gear, he broke a window at the school, which had recently had a new security system installed, and within minutes had shot and killed six adults and 20 schoolchildren between the ages of five and 10. The shooting stopped when Lanza put a bullet in his own head. Multiple weapons were found at the scene, including two semiautomatic handguns registered to his mother. A Bushmaster rifle registered to Nancy was discovered outside in the car. Police are currently investigating reports that Lanza had an altercation at the school in the days before the shooting, according to sources.

Long before Lanza's spree, however, residents of Newtown had noticed that tall, pale boy was different, and believed he had some kind of unspecified personality disorder. "Adam Lanza has been a weird kid since we were five years old," wrote a neighbor and former classmate Timothy Dalton on Twitter. "As horrible as this was, I can't say I am surprised." In school, Lanza carried a black briefcase and spoke little. Every day, he wore a sort of uniform: khakis and a shirt buttoned up to the neck, with pens lined up in his shirt pocket. A former classmate in his 10th grade honors English class, Olivia DeVivo, says he "was always very nervous and socially awkward." She told ABC News that "he didn't really want to be spoken to" and that when teachers would call on him "it appeared physically difficult for him to speak." Lanza avoided public attention and had few, if any, friends, though he was a member of the high-school tech club. He liked to sit near the door of the classroom to make a quick exit.

He even managed to avoid having his picture in his seventh-grade yearbook. He was one of seven students listed as "Camera Shy." And unlike most in his age group, he seems to have left little imprint on the internet – no Facebook page, no Twitter account. Lanza's parents Peter and Nancy Lanza married in New Hampshire in 1981, and had two sons, Adam and his older brother Ryan, who is now 24 and lives in New Jersey. The Lanzas divorced in 2009 after 28 years of marriage due to "irreconcilable differences." When they first filed for divorce in 2008, a judge ordered that they participate in a "parenting education program." Adam was 17 at the time of the divorce. He continued to live in Newtown with his mother. His father now lives in his Stamford, Connecticut with his second wife.

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[tyroneweaver]

Never let a tragedy go to waste right progressives?

ya the libs get all butt hurt when conservatives blame the kenyan for everything, but now they're going to blame all gun owners for this fool in Ct.

 

[OKTexas]

Yep, just another scripted moment in his eternal campaign, playing his part and running his finger tip along is obviously dry eye. Don't get me wrong, he can play his little part as president and read all the correct words, but his fake emotions were just a bit over the top. Seriously, take a close look at the photo in the OP and tell me that is a man wiping tears.

 

[bodecea]

Never let a tragedy go to waste right progressives?

Ask Huckabee.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Sherry]

Dem. lawmaker: To get gun control, Obama must 'exploit' shooting - Washington Times

 

[bodecea]

This didn't take long for the Obama bashing.

 

[Lakhota]

Aw, the Moonie Times...

 

[Sherry]

Aw, the Moonie Times...

Nobody put those words in Nadler's mouth, dip shit.

“These incidents, these horrible, horrible incidents … are happening more and more frequently. And they will continue to happen more and more frequently until someone with the bully pulpit, and that means the president, takes leadership and pushes Congress,” Mr. Nadler said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” with Ed Schultz.

Mr. Nadler was asked whether the Newtown tragedy could be the turning point in many Democrats’ longstanding struggle to enact stronger gun laws.

“I think we will be there if the president exploits it, and otherwise we’ll go on to the next” incident, Mr. Nadler said.
Mr. Nadler joins New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others who quickly turned their attention to gun control laws in the hours following Friday’s shooting, one of the worst campus massacres in U.S. history.

Dem. lawmaker: To get gun control, Obama must 'exploit' shooting - Washington Times

 

[Mustang]

Never let a tragedy go to waste right progressives?

Ask Mike Huckabee.

 

[konradv]

Politicizing? Who kept calling for budget cuts and the total elimination of the Dept. of Education forcing things like this?

Obama administration, Congress quietly let school security funds lapse | WashingtonGuardian

 

[OKTexas]

Politicizing? Who kept calling for budget cuts and the total elimination of the Dept. of Education forcing things like this?

Obama administration, Congress quietly let school security funds lapse | WashingtonGuardian

Education along with the associated security should be funded locally, not by the feds. Is that really such a difficult concept?

 

[SniperFire]

Politicizing? Who kept calling for budget cuts and the total elimination of the Dept. of Education forcing things like this?

Obama administration, Congress quietly let school security funds lapse | WashingtonGuardian

Budget cuts forced a sick twist video gamer to live out his fantasy?

LOL

 

[SniperFire]

Politicizing? Who kept calling for budget cuts and the total elimination of the Dept. of Education forcing things like this?

Obama administration, Congress quietly let school security funds lapse | WashingtonGuardian

Education along with the associated security should be funded locally, not by the feds. Is that really such a difficult concept?

To someone such as konradv, having the Federal gubmint pay for everything is the best way to insure it is someone else's expense.

 

[aaronleland]

An article politicizing the shooting while asking if Obama is politicizing the shooting? How shocking.

 

[francoHFW]

Obviously, gun loopholes and mental health care need addressing...

 

[thanatos144]

Never let a tragedy go to waste right progressives?

Ask Huckabee.

Huckabee is a pastor you dumb ass so of course he sees things through the lens of God is the answer....It is fools like you who cant understand it.