ABC News
First-grade teacher Victoria Soto died putting herself between her students and the rampaging gunman as he sprayed bullets inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, her cousin told ABC News.
“The family was informed that she was trying to shield, get her children into a closet and protect them from harm, and by doing that put herself between the children and the gunman, and that’s when she was tragically shot and killed,” Jim Wiltsie said.
The Hartford Courant reported that Soto’s classroom was next to where the shooting began at the Newtown, Conn. school. She is believed to have hidden 15 or 16 students, possibly in the closet or in a class bathroom, before the shooter, identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, entered the room.
Wiltsie said Soto’s “life dream was to be a teacher, and her instincts kicked in” when “there was harm coming towards her students.”
“It brings peace to know that Vicki was doing what she loved, protecting the children and in our eyes, she’s a hero,” Wiltsie said. “She lost her life doing what she loved. I don’t think she would have it any other way. She loved kids, her goal in life was to be a teacher and to mold young minds and that’s what she achieved and unfortunately lost her life protecting those children.”
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jeanr
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:26pmDon’t worry…The wingers will start saying how they are misinterpreted or are unfairly being accused of hating teachers. They do the same thing with the Bible. The dismiss a lot of the old Testament because it makes them took like bigots. But at other times, they cite the old Testament when it fits their argument.
littlebitflighty
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:35pmYOU have been lied to. It’s really sad.
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littlebitflighty
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:39pm@ treadingonyou
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georgette
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:47pmPolitics has no place in this time of grievous loss….only compassion.
Please……….. stop.
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Treadingonyou
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:20pmYou people played politics with this woman’s paycheck. Suddenly you want to be clean of your smears against teachers?
Here’s what BLAZE commenters have said about teachers:
DONH2: “How about closing the schools for a year and giving the people an 80% reduction in their property tax bill.”
REAL TRUE AMERICAN: “If they can’t fire them, just don’t pay them they will look for work some where else….”
TUNDRA4X4: “Fire every last one of them!!!!!! No unemployment benifits, etc…… Then you cancel the school year and make everyone of the students take the year over again.”
OOKSPAY: “It is ironic that teachers are beloved and remembered so fondly by so many yet they are the main reason for many states going bankrupt.”
FOX news on teachers: “Regardless of the greed-based, almost slightly sociopathic job bankers did wrecking our economy, those people were there every single day, 12 months a year. Not that nine month bullsh*t!”
Megyn Kelly of Fox News recently argued teachers don’t deserve as much money because they “don’t work as much.”
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@SoquelCreek
Dec. 16, 2012 at 8:31pmTreadingOnYou, there is no doubt that Victoria Soto is a hero.
I’m a part-time volunteer science teacher at both public schools and private schools. My mom, multiple aunts, a few uncles, and both grandmothers were all distiguished public school teachers. I have no beef with public school teachers.
However, as a Californian, I DO have a beef with California’s self-serving public school teachers’ UNIONS. My mom hated that she was forced to pay dues to the CTA despite that she disagreed with just about everything they’ve done to the state of California.
The California Teachers Association (CTA) is the biggest spender in California politics, according to the California Fair Political Practices Commission. Both the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers spent millions to raise taxes on ALL Californians in Governor Jerry Brown’s bogus Proposition 30 tax hikes.
California Proposition 30: Governor Jerry Brown’s Big-Government Tax Hike
http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2012/07/california-proposition-30-governor.html
I just wish California’s teachers’ unions would spend a little effort on the REAL problems confronting California instead of their own selfish interests.
Thank You Proposition 30 Supporters!
http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2012/11/wecandobetter.html
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Treadingonyou
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:26pmThis is a teacher. So… you right wing nuts must hate her. I mean, you hate the UN but suddenly care about diplomats and now a teacher that is a hero (as ALL are) is revealed and you suddenly love teachers.
You people are born dishonest, lying, hateful people. That is what the Republican Party is. Pure. Hate.
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:49pmRepublicans don’t hate teachers. You’re a liar. We want teachers to do their jobs the best they can. But they can’t when they have a federal Government, run by leftie unions, dictating to local school districts what to teach and do. Yes, we can’t stand liberal professors that spout their nonsense to students. That’s not hating teachers, but abhorring the left’s monopolistic influence in education.
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jcldwl
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:52pmFirst who said Republicans hate teachers? Perhaps you don’t understand. Just because we hate what has happened to our public education system doesn’t mean we hate teachers. All Americans should hate what our public education system has become. Now yes we do dislike the U.N. in fact I hate it. What you fail to realize is that the diplomat you speak of was an Ambassador of the United States of America not the United Nations. Now before you spew hateful names at people accusing them of being born hateful you should have your facts straight. The only hate I see here came from you.
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MetalPatriot
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:03pmTreadingonyou…
Appropriate monicker. You’re an instigative s-disturber of the worst kind. You prove your lack of ethics by coming to a right leaning news source for the sole purpose of creating problems.
Whatever your “deal” is, this woman is a hero. Her death (and brave actions) will forever be etched into the minds of her students, their families, and her co-workers.
Get lost, COWARD!
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MetalPatriot
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:12pmTreadingonyou…
Appropriate monicker for such an s-disburber. By coming to a right leaning web site for the sole purpose of politicizing this horrific event proves your lack of concern, ethics, and morality.
This teacher is a hero whose life and actions will forever be etched into the hearts and minds of her students, their families, her collegues, and her family.
Your premise that “all teachers are heroes” is false based on my personal experience as a 44 yr old adult attending community college. Many of the teachers are fantastic, however there are those whose sole purpose is to indoctrinate yound minds with Progressive, Socialist, Communist, Anti-American, and Anti-Christian values. I am experiencing this and there is nothing you can say to disprove the truth of my statements.
You, Sir or Madame, have publicly proven your lack of character. Get lost, COWARD!
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jeanr
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:22pmOh, how convenient…Now it’s just the college professors that are the Socialists. It’s very ironic how we treat teachers and soldiers. We feel good about calling them heroes when it makes ourselves feel good to say so. But God forbid if somebody actually tries to do something to help them…Like raising pay for teachers or promoting peace to get military home. THEN you are an anti-American, thug-union loving, Socialist Communist who blindly follows a non-white president as lord and savior.
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TomSawyer
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:34pmYou sound like you hate the GOP.
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HisNameWasRobertPaulson
Dec. 16, 2012 at 12:11amTreading, you are a sick human being that needs counseling. In the meantime, everyone please be aware that this troll works for Soros, and is using Saulinsky against you. He is trying to silence you with his intimidation of you, taking comments from different posts not related to this story, and trying to get you to back down.
Remember, this guy is getting paid to hate you. Just remember that he needs a new pair of underpants, so don’t worry about him too much. Just a terrible troll that needs our love and compassion.
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mzk1
Dec. 16, 2012 at 10:16amThis teacher was a hero. Therefore all teachers are heros?
Maybe if you hadn’t gone to public schools you would have learned how to make a proper syllogism.
OK, I’ll say it. This teacher is a hero. The NEA/AFT as a whole is child abuse organization.
There are great, hard-working professors out there; my Dad was one. The profession as a whole is destroying the country, although to be fair the university administrators are worse.
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casjane1
Dec. 17, 2012 at 2:25am@treadingonyou: Do you know any teachers? Well I do! My niece is a teacher and says it’s very frustrating to try and do her job when the govt. is constantly interrupting her by pushing all kinds of things at the teachers. She schedules tests on the lessons the kids have been working on only to have to cancel or postpone those tests because of new guidelines, meetings and hogwash. How are the teachers to know if the kids have retained anything they have been studying if they can’t even take a simple test? The govt. has it’s nose stuck in everything they do and causes them to stop in the middle of one thing to jump to another. Then they blame the teachers when the kids don’t learn what they need to know. Then to top it off they expect the teachers to “dumb down” their work to condone their lack of learning. They need to **** out and let the teachers do the job they have been trained to do. The problem isn’t their lack of skill but their lack of freedom. The teachers unions have given them a bad name. They’re out for themselves and all the money they can get from them.
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Liberty1947
Dec. 17, 2012 at 11:31am@Treadingonyou: It appears as though you are the one filled with hate. Can we say UNIONS? It is the teacher unions that are mostly always out of line. Nobody hates teachers. But the people pushing the agenda of more money which always goes for salaries and things that are not in the least related to the students. There are many teachers that are in the profession for the right reasons, but the few soil it for all. Kinda like this murderer that now the radical gun control right activists will pounce upon. Their agenda like the teachers will be the forefront, and the poor kids and teachers that were killed will be nothing but a postscript!
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AllLost
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:19pmShe will be loved and remembered by those children and their families for the rest of their lives. She is a hero.
America is divided by ideology. The majority understand the problems and issues, but have completely different idea about the how and what to be the fix or solution.
In the end we are Americans. This woman is an American. I don’t know what her ideology was, but she took responsibility unto death to protect those that could not protect themselves.
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Treadingonyou
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:29pmNo. Republicans love America, but they hate most of Americans. Read the e-caves you people hide in on and spout on daily. You are constantly furious, resentful and mean spirited people.
You are Republicans. Your sole job is to be unhappy and argue and shout and whine.
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:46pm@TREADINGONYOU Apparently you’ve never heard about Occupy Wall Street, or watched the union thugs unleash violence in Michigan these past few days.
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Treadingonyou
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:23pmOccupy Wall Street was full of teachers, veterans and laborers. You hate all of them. Thanks for proving my point about your seething hatred toward working Americans. Now go back to church and listen closely so your right wing pastor can tell you how your lord is really all about an eye for an eye.
Here’s what BLAZE commenters have said about teachers:
DONH2: “How about closing the schools for a year and giving the people an 80% reduction in their property tax bill.”
REAL TRUE AMERICAN: “If they can’t fire them, just don’t pay them they will look for work some where else….”
TUNDRA4X4: “Fire every last one of them!!!!!! No unemployment benifits, etc…… Then you cancel the school year and make everyone of the students take the year over again.”
OOKSPAY: “It is ironic that teachers are beloved and remembered so fondly by so many yet they are the main reason for many states going bankrupt.”
FOX news on teachers: “Regardless of the greed-based, almost slightly sociopathic job bankers did wrecking our economy, those people were there every single day, 12 months a year. Not that nine month bullsh*t!”
Megyn Kelly of Fox News recently argued teachers don’t deserve as much money because they “don’t work as much.”
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 10:17pmYou must not be able to read. OWS was full of angry, resentful, hate filled people that caused crime, violence, public disorder and uproar.
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ares338
Dec. 16, 2012 at 5:44pmYou mean just like you?
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JustOneThing
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:13pmAll the teachers, first responders and even the neighbors who ran to the scene are heroes. I pray they and the families involved will find peace and healing in the days and years to come.
We should not be surprised, however, that these things are happening and becoming more frequent. Our nation just confirmed, yet again, that it is ok with the majority to kill babies. The evil that is behind attacks like this one laughs at our “laws” — we say “yes, it’s ok to kill children in the womb but not once they are born.” That door was opened 40 years ago…and has been held wide open ever since.
We are a nation of hypocrites. Our government is full of the biggest hypocrites of all.
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:54pm@TREADINGONYOU You’re a complete idiot, and brainwashed tool of the left.
I’m a strict Conservative, and registered Republican. My family is registered Republican. Both my parents are immigrants. My family is of a Hispanic ethnicity. We love America, and the freedom and independence we’re afforded here. We abhor the Marxist left that wants to destroy America, just as much as we hate the radical revolutionists that have taken over the vast majority of Latin American countries. We know about your ilk, radical ideology, and complete ignorance of anything resembling truth. America is the last bastion of hope for liberty to survive, and I will resist you liberal idiots at every turn you try to make.
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jcldwl
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:02pmBased on treadingonyou’s I would say she is a lonely person from Chicago alone in her fatigues and combat boots and buzz haircut. Unable to find herself so she self loathes and reflects her self hate onto others. This makes her feel better because it gets her blood flowing making her feel like she is powerful. But as I said she is a lonely girl just looking for someone to love her. Hey Treading, Jesus loves you.
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Treadingonyou
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:29pmJCLDWL — I see that you like attacking people in the military and anyone from Chicago.
Thanks for proving what a racist creep you are and s**ting all over your perception of my Lord.
You come from that wing of Christianity that worships hate — which is why everything you said in your post was hateful until you say “Jesus loves you.”
You haven’t a clue of what Jesus was about because you live in a cesspool of hate and resentment.
Your comments historically have proven that “love” is not a place you have ever visited. You live in the bile that drips from your soulless mouth that screams at liberals, teachers, unions, immigrants, latinos, women on the pill (most women), blacks, muslims… etc.
You are the people who hate for a living. Preach hate, live hate. One quick search ion your party party of hate blog and you can find literally hundreds of hateful posts about teachers.
You. Hate. Teachers.
You. Hate. Americans.
Stop pretending you are holy or Christian. You are not.
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Rob
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:01pmShe was a better man than I. I would have saved my **** first. However, if I had a pistol I would have been shooting back.
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EvilConserv
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:27pmI have no doubt that if she would have had a gun, she would have not only shot back, but might have saved countless young lives including possibly her own! God Bless her and her family. The most dangerous places to be in this country are increasingly the ‘gun free’ zones! Evil cannot be disarmed!
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Treadingonyou
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:33pmYes. You are a Republican, so all you think about it yourself. That’s evident in everything you Tea Bags pout about: me, me, me, me, me. Anger, rage, whine, me.
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Rob
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:59pmShe was a better man than me… I would have saved my **** first. However, if I had a pistol on me I would have been shooting back.
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GUYFROMMAINE
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:36pmBecause she put herself last, she made sure the children were safe. She placed herself between those she loved and the one who hated them. She gave her life, and because of this it sounds like some children are alive today. She was a hero when it counted, when it mattered most.
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Exiled
Dec. 17, 2012 at 12:43amShe gave her life – but she didn’t have to. She could have shot back. She could have saved herself and the children – instead of just being a “dead hero”.
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berlet98
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:22pmSandy Hook: Requiescat in Pace
Nothing–absolutely nothing–can even begin to relieve the pain that the parents, relatives, friends, neighbors, and schoolmates of the twenty innocent children and seven adults must be suffering as a result of Friday’s senseless massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
How else but senseless can we describe the mass murder of 27 innocent, defenseless people on a beautiful, crisp morning just before Christmas in a sleepy little New England town? What other word comes close to defining the insanity that drove 20 year old Adam Lanza to kill his mother, eight little first grade boys and twelve girls, six Sandy Hook women staff members, and finally himself?
If anything, “senseless” is totally inadequate to describe the atrocity.
Those of us parents who have never experienced the loss of a child, especially the loss of a very young child, should never counsel that there will be some sense of eventual closure. Closure is a concept invented by psychiatrists perhaps to relieve the anguish of survivors but impossible in the real world.
There will be time enough to explore the reasons why the obviously deeply-disturbed Lanza saw fit to summarily and violently carry out his premeditated executions.
There will be time enough to determine what demons drove him to . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=29158.)
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turbo
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:08pmWith her courage and her own hand gun, all of those children could be alive right now.
Gun safe zones are nothing more than unprotected targets.
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oldguy49
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:23pmi do believe that when these shootings happen except for the senator giford……..it is always in a gun free zone……..and why are they blameing guns……….if he had run them over it would have been the cars fault !!!!!
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For my Liberty!
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:27pmI have one question…HOW does anyone know that she did this? I am sorry this young lady died, but the story says “It is believed she…….” so WHO told this story?
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brother_ed
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:09pm@FOR MY LIBERTY!
From the Hartford Courant:
“One of those killed, first-grade teacher Victoria Soto, died after hiding her students, a source told The Courant.
Soto was a teacher in room 10, the classroom next to where the shooting began, the source said. She hid her students — 15 or 16 of them, some possibly in a bathroom — before the gunman entered the room.
He wanted to shoot more people, the source said, but, seeing no one but Soto, he shot her, then left the room, the source sad [sic].”
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barber2
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:19pmyou are a disgusting Chicago radical loving Troll .
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ronin_6
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:09pmThere is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
John 15:13
This woman died in a state of grace. God bless her.
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donewithnews
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:40pmThanks, ANTITHEISM, for the opportunity to put scripture in context. 137:9 is admonishing Babylonians, who took joy in overthrowing Israel, that the conquerors of Babylon will in turn exhibit the same joy. As, in fact was the case when Babylon fell to the Persians.
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brother_ed
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:11pm@ANTITHEISM
Please don’t quote scripture…your user name suggests you are unqualified.
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brother_ed
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:18pm@RONIN_6
Beautifully said!!
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raydg
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:28pmAmen, brother.
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Dismayed Veteran
Dec. 17, 2012 at 11:54amWhen the right thing needed to be done, she did it.
Now that is an epitaph.
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Tom Dooley
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:54pmHow come he was not stopped I thought they called 911.
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chips1
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:18pmMaybe they should have called your buddy Gov. Dan Malloy. His big mouth seems to have all the answers. He has embraced Lucifer. Read his speech at the DNC. This guy is is nuts!!!
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:53pmShe showed great courage. But we all know she stood no chance against the lunatic. We wait for police to come blazing with guns to defeat this lunatic, and the liberals leave us ordinary folks to defend ourselves with our flesh and blood only? These progressives are ridiculous, and sick. Please folks, use common sense, and do not let these liberals dominate the gun debate these coming days.
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bava
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:49pmYou people hate teachers, remember. Union leftists and all that. Don’t even try to make up for it now with your tears for someone you despised a week ago. Two letters for you people. F and O. You’re dinosaurs and your extinction event is coming. Merry Christmas.
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:57pmIt’s the liberals and their commie unions that left this teacher defenseless, a sitting duck, for any maniac to walk in and slaughter innocent souls. Let’s not forget that in the name of “safety” liberals and RINOs passed a zero tolerance gun policy on all school grounds. For Pete’s sake, not even the principle or a certified and trained teacher is allowed to posses a gun for protection. We entrust the education of our children in the hands of these teachers, but we leave our kids with no adequate protection. I expect some sort of security wherever I go, we should expect no less from our schools. The police will use guns, not forks, to protect themselves from these lunatics. Are we as ordinary citizens worth less than them? All men are created equal and we all have the same right to defend our life.
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N37BU6
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:00pmHating corrupt union heads who use their members as cash cows to funnel funds to corrupt politicians means we hate teachers?
You’re a victim of propaganda, and I feel sorry for you.
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N37BU6
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:11pmWe love children, so oppose abortion, and you say we hate women… despite the fact that ~50% of those children would grow up to be women.
We love freedom, so oppose high taxes, and you say we hate the needy… despite the fact that the government is promoting dependency, and killing the economy that pays for it.
We love all races, so oppose segregation, and you say we hate minorities… despite the fact that it’s the left that forms coalitions that separate people by race.
This list could go on for pages. You’re being used, and fed a line of BS. There are ulterior motives at work for just about every one of your non-arguments, and it’s all about dividing and conquering America. This is social warfare, textbook style.
Get a grip, friend.
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puravida56
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:23pmBava is doing the same thing he accuse others of. He is stereotyping everyone on the blaze as people who stereotype teachers as lazy unionists.
I too am frustrated by the prevailing attitude I have seen from many posters on this site towards a group of people who dedicate their lives to our youth.
Teachers are vilified constantly by members of this site and that is wrong. But it is also wrong to vilify all the members (or all conservatives) on this site of hating teachers.
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barber2
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:28pm” you’re dinosaurs and your extinction event is coming up.” My. Now isn’t that just lovely ? You , BAVA, sound infected with the same rage and anger as this guy. Thanks, Chicago radicals, for dividing this country and for infecting so many of our w young Americans with this dangerous anger.
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Snowbaby
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:30pmYou people? I am sickened over this and I don’t hate teachers. I’m a conservatve, and dislike teacher unions, but the teachers themselves? They are as indvidual as every group in America! Good and Bad. This entire thing has sickened me. Bless this woman who put her life in front of the children. I would hope we would all do the same.
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UseTP2wipe
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:31pmuh huh….so now its not the liberal/leftist teachers “indoctrinating” the poor children with socialism, and communism and atheism and all the other isms that you nuts think teachers instill, but are dreadfully misinformed about but the union leaders? I have seen numerous comments about evil teachers here, so don’t try and switch it around to the “union heads” when it becomes expedient…(ie…..when, as in this case you’ll look bad if you do hate on the teachers)
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PATTY HENRY
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:02pm@N37BUG et al: Bravo!
“WE PEOPLE” do NOT hate Teachers, we hate what many teachers teach (Anti-Americanism, Anti-Moral, Anti-God as programmed into them in their various colleges who have now admitted to teaching the Communist party-line via PLANTED (by COMMIES) teachers since early 1950′s. THEY admitted it last year, but we’ve known it for decades.
Read it again and tell me which part of that you don’t understand.
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brother_ed
Dec. 15, 2012 at 6:06pm@PURAVIDA56
Well said.
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Wigglypoff
Dec. 17, 2012 at 6:23amHey used2wipe: maybe u should wipe some of the bs in your brain. It’s ok start wiping again. I know first hand that the teachers do not make the syllabus; it is pre generated and they are given the program they must teach. Make every state a right to work state and get rid of public sector unions.
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DadRocked
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:49pmThe word HERO is so overused…!
To me a HERO is someone who puts there mortal life behind them to save another’s life.
I have no reason to doubt this story, so to me…
SHE IS A HERO!
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StormRider
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:37pmDecades ago, Israel adopted a policy that swiftly ended terrorist attacks against schools. Earlier this year, Thailand adopted a similar approach. It is politically incorrect, but it does have the advantage of saving the lives of children and teachers. The policy? Encourage teachers to carry firearms.”
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puravida56
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:24pmI have personally known hundreds of teachers in my life. Trust me…..arming them is not a good idea. They do not have the training, temperament or skills to carry a gun (especially in Elementary school).
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:02pmWe are not asking to simply hand them a gun. I don’t hand a chainsaw, axe, or hot iron just to anyone, especially without any instruction. We’re talking about at least having security, an armed principle or teacher, with training, certification and proper education to defend themselves and protect others. Every freaking Government building has armed guards, security measures, and police ready at a notice, except our public schools, which are also government buildings. The politicians only care about protecting themselves, not our children, apparently. The executive of my county is very liberal and anti-gun, yet he has three armed body guards with him at all times, and uses more than $300,000 a year of our tax money to protect himself. Our schools? Unprotected. A father and his children? No gun permits are granted in this state to ordinary citizens. We’re not asking for much. We just to having a chance to protect ourselves and children. Why are the lives of judges and Government administrators worth more than innocent, defenseless children?
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patrioteveryman
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:47pmpuravida56: training and qualification IS the answer, handing a gun to someone unwilling to use it properly is worse that the status-quo. A few well trained and motivated people could protect a large number.
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RaydocX
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:32pmAnother hero whose story should be remembered… a selfless act she performed without thinking…
It’s terrible when we lose such people to caprice and selfish evil.
I will think often as the story gets put together, why couldn’t this deviant little runt have simply offed himself, instead of ending little ones childhoods, including lives he did not steal, and taking from the community dedicated and devoted professionals who had clearly never done anything to him.
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shorelineliz
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:31pmA True American Hero and Patriot! She went straight to Heaven!
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antitheism
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:08pmI do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. -1 Timothy 2 12.
I assume her class had males in it.
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barber2
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:31pmATHEISM: It’s Eliasuim or whatever the old name was ! Just coming around to spew the usual disrespectful, anti-religious rhetoric. Just more of the radical anger that our Chicago radicals have unleashed on America. Disgusting.
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valiant1776
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:44pm@ANTITHEISM You’re way out context there. Do you have a lack of reading comprehension?
The Bible does not prohibit women to teach children, male or female.
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dancing bear
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:21pmIts sad but sadder yet is the fact no one in the school was packing a gun is it wrong to protect yourself ?
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Shasta
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:58pmIt is now I think.
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Frodo RinosBane
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:14pmIt’s names like hers that we should be remembering and putting all over the headlines. She was a true hero whose example we all aspire to should we ever find ourselves in a similar situation. May God give her peace as she shepherds these little ones into the presence of the Good Shepherd.
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The_Almighty_Creestof
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:13pmBless this young woman. Those with such courage, who will take a stand against evil…are born few and far apart these days.
May her loved ones find peace in this time of woe.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:12pmNo greater love…demonstrated here first hand in her placing herself between the shooter and the kids.
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progressiveslayer
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:39pmThat’s a fact snow,she was a very courageous young lady,so much loss of life and it’s a horrifying story indeed.
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DadRocked
Dec. 15, 2012 at 5:11pmThe word hero is SO overused these days.
To me a hero is one who without question or doubt puts themself between harms way to save another.
This woman is a HERO.
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bobinmichigan
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:01pmGod bless her for her love for the children. May her family be comforted knowing that she laid down her life for the little ones in her charge. The true heart of a shepherd.
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everydaywoman
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:16pmAmen.
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kickagrandma
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:24pmAmen!
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americangirl060221
Dec. 15, 2012 at 4:27pmAmen.
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Treadingonyou
Dec. 15, 2012 at 7:30pmShe was a Democrat. A liberal. A union member. You are supposed to hate her, Tea Bags.
Come on, where’s the hate today? Your blog is usually nothing but rage.
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MLeo
Dec. 15, 2012 at 8:23pmVictoria Soto is a name and person I shall bless for the rest of my days. She alone made the decision to do something that saved these little ones’ lives. May God keep her family in His Holy Care. In Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen.
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patrioteveryman
Dec. 15, 2012 at 9:03pmtreading, you missed the point so badly, I wonder if you are really human
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Twobyfour
Dec. 16, 2012 at 12:46amTreadingonyou: “She was a Democrat. A liberal. A union member. You are supposed to hate her, Tea Bags.”
The only hate on the thread seems to be coming from you. Why do you feel compelled to make things up? You may have been correct with just one thing in your description.
I just talked with someone from the town. There are quite a few things mis-reported or inaccurate in the media coverage, but possibly attributable to eagerness of reporters to report something and fill in the blanks. You, on the other hand, make things up from the whole cloth.
My source also knew Victoria Soto. She was a practicing roman-catholic. She was independent and not registered with any political party. She was also very family oriented and pro-life, which if I am not mistaken is not exactly a liberal stance. She may have been a teacher’s union member, my source did not know–but if she was, she may not have had any choice about it if she wanted to teach in the area.
Fittingly, in the candle-light vigil for her, a local student choir did not sing the Funeral March of Fallen Revolutionaries, but Silent Holy Night and Amazing Grace.
God bless Victoria Soto.
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