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This Letter to a 6-Year-Old Sandy Hook Victim From His Best Friend Will Leave You Speechless

Dec. 19, 2012 8:32am Billy Hallowell

Many Americans are still trying to wrap their heads around the horror that befell Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday. As the victims are laid to rest, new stories continue to emerge from the survivors — many of whom hid from the gunman or fled for their lives. Among the more recent media accounts is a somber tale — a letter that a young boy named John wrote to his best friend, six-year-old Jack Pinto, one of the 20 children tragically murdered.

The note, while short, encapsulates the level of devastation being felt, while stirring deep and intense emotion, especially when considering the unimaginable pain and loss that such young survivors are facing. As reported by Gawker, USA Today reporter Yamiche Alcindor took a picture of the letter, which included pictures of John and Jack, and posted it to Twitter.

Johns Letter to Sandy Hook Victim Jack Pinto Will Stir You

Photo Credit: Twitter/@Yamiche and USA Today

In it, John shared his love for his friend, promising to “talk” to him in his prayers. The words are short and to the point, yet stirring, especially considering that they come from such a small child:

Jack,

You are my best friend.
We had fun together.
I will miss you.
I will talk to you in my prayers.
I love you Jack.

Love,
John

Jack was laid to rest on Monday. A football fan, the young boy was memorialized by New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz this week, who put the child’s name on his cleats and gloves. The messages the famed player wrote read, “Jack Pinto ‘My Hero’ and “R.I.P. Jack Pinto.”

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REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:05pm
You certainly can’t read that letter and not get all choked up. I’m crying like a baby… :(

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- angelcat
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:35pm
  You are certainly correct. I’m crying too.
  
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- neverending
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:59pm
  Hard to read when one is weeping!
  
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- Bro. Chuck
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:35pm
  Father,
  If only we could all have the heart and innocence of Lil John…
  
  Bless all who have been affected by this tragedy, Lord….
  Hold them close -
  That they know You are with them….
  
  In Yeshua’s Precious Name….
  we humbly pray
  
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- Tachy320
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:16pm
  Ditto, and it gets worse when I read it again. I am home with my twins who are 11. I have thought about them so much and this letter kills me because one of my son’s wrote a letter to his brother a couple weeks ago to the tune of this letter. A couple years ago we drove over the river and One said he would rather drown than his brother. This letter and the other child with the twin sister have really hit me hard the last few days. RIP little ones.
  
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- wareagle85
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:31pm
  Rebel, this is Lynne. This little letter is breaking my heart! How tragic that little fellow lost his best buddie because a madman coward decided to murder innocent children. The sadness in his brief note is gut-wrenching. I can’t stop crying.
  
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marthasusan40
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:51pm
Our Children are at risk when they go to school in a gun free zone…only the bad guys have the guns. I would not show up for work at any school with out my handgun in my purse. Banning guns is the problem…our children and faculty become sitting ducks. My heart is broken for the families of these innocent victims…but to ban guns will only lead to more incidents like this one.

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- blue_rain
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 5:01pm
  So very true.
  
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- marie77
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:31pm
  The “gun free zone” is an target screaming – come here to kill! I truly believe that if one responsible adult at that school had had a weapon, the loss of life would not have been so great.
  
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StandingUpForAmerica
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:43pm
When I was in school in the 1980′s lots of us students had guns in our cars and knives in our pockets.
the only time we lost a classmate was do to car wrecks. The lack of GUNS at school is the problem!
We had a better chance to stop a violent monster then. And some how the problem was not there.
Makes you think that the problem just might be gun free zones.

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- 48Straights
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:08pm
  But that does not fit into the Progressive aganda
  
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- BigWhiteMan
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:15pm
  I hadn’t thought about that but I remember the same things. I NEVER went to school without a pocket knife of some kind or my Swiss Army Knife after I could afford one. I used it in front of teachers (properly) many times without any alarm. Many of us carried our prized deer rifle in the back or our truck or a handgun in the car. My only classmates died in car accidents and one was injured on a 3 wheeler. I’m not advocating “children” carry guns in school but I do support the concept of trained teachers certified to carry weapons. “We” have been brainwashed out of policing ourselves and convinced that it’s okay if we don’t get caught or that we shouldn’t step in when we see evil happening.
  
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- tunnelboy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:22pm
  You are exactly right. Gun Free Zones ARE the problem.
  
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- Exidor
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:38pm
  Yep. Gun rack in the truck in the parking lot.
  
  Maybe the occasional fight between the Ropers and the Dopers, but that was about it.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:56pm
  always had a beat-up Winchester pump in my truck and everyone knew it. And never a word from the school…….
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:16pm
  @TUNNELBOY
  
  LOL. Yea, gun free zones are the problem, not mentally handicapped people with access to semi-automatic guns with 30-100 round clips are the problem. You’re too stupid for your own good. As a matter of a fact, I am surprised you were able to turn on your computer without the help from your aid.
- 48Straights
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:13pm
  I had a gun rack in my 65 Chevy PU. Gun in it allot and rounds in the glovebox. Many times left the PU unlocked. Took a little 25 auto to classes because I forgot to take it out on my pocket. This was not rural, it was in a western city.
  
  No one would have messed with our school or the ones around it in todays world.
  
  We need to get back to those times.
  
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- ColoradoRay
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:16pm
  I graduated in 08 from a tiny highschool in rural CO and one day we counted the guns we knew about between the seniors and juniors. it totaled somewhere near 50 for the 70 guys in those two grades alone, not a single kid was ever threatened with one or harmed by anyone in school or from outside school.
  
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- MBF
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:42pm
  We were never shooting our kids up with 36-49 vaccines before the age of 5 either, vaccines made with aborted DNA, contaminated with Lyme and other bacteria and high levels of mercury and aluminum throw in just to get a ‘good’ immune response.
  
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- BarbieBabe
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:44am
  Back in the 80′s or 70′s when I was in school, our parents were at home and “parenting” Now they are absent, Kids are put in front of a video game and left to figure it out by themself. We had church we had prayers, we gave thanks at meals. We respected adults and never talked back. “Wait till your father gets home” put the fear of God in us. It’s all about RESPECT. These kids don’t respect anyone. It’s all about “ME”. Well folks this is what “Me” gives you.
  Bring back God and faith and see what happens. And I don’t mean the Farakahn style of faith. He teaches hate. Get prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance” and respect back in school and no more of the kids believing that they can get parent arrested if they complain to someone. This just gives them ammunition for more “Me” attitude.
  Then we need to get involved with mental illness. I don’t ever remember autism or ADHD in my generation. Where did that come from. We were to busy playing outside to be hyperactive.
  We didn’t have pedifiles, We didn’t have that kind violence in the streets.
  When we get God back in our hearts we will see a huge reduction in violence. God is and always will be the answer.
  Now, saying all that, lets all pray for all the folks in CT. that have lost loved ones. Remember,we will see them on the other side. Jesus were there to welcome all the children into his house.
  GOD BLESS
  
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uptickusa
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:41pm
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chg2012
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:23pm
so sad.. there will be a thousand stories to break our hearts..
but we can’t allow the Big Brother Gov to use this time to get what they want long term !
if they really cared about children being killed they would do something about the cities that have the highest gun violence , namely their beloved Chicago !

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deeberj
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:01pm
I know this may sound heartless, but I think we need to stop talking about each and every person who loved each and every child and teacher and how the massacre is affecting everyone. We will keep hearing this stuff over and over and over again, the media is pounding us with this news and I’m starting to feel apathetic about it due to over exposure! We won’t hear the end of it until every last little casket is buried and it will go on afterwards too. The media is playing this to the hilt becuase they are benefiting from the death of young children.

Meanwhile, Hillary had a convenient concussioni so she couldn’t testify about Ben Gazi, and now it’s been decided it all was administration error and we are barely hearing about it. Meanwhile, the so called “fiscal cliff” is brewing and it’s not being reported about. And so on.

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- dado7
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:25pm
  Agreed!
  
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- Marcia
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:05pm
  I think it is important to get to know each victim personally. Unlike you, I enjoy reading their stories and hearing about how much they were loved. I pray I am remembered in such a way meaningful way when I pass.
  
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- nonofmybiznez
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:07pm
  Touching as these stories are, the media is like a dog with a bone and these events get dragged out to the point where its been overexposed. Leave something for the books. I think this extended reporting contributes to the inability of folks to move forward. We get to the saturation point after a few days. Its time to let these people grieve and learn to move on without our continued day in day out exposure. May God bless them.
  
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- 48Straights
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:18pm
  Now that TheBlaze has a progressive as it president, you wont find real news or meaningful content here. This place is just a bunch of gossipers commenting on stories too trivial for the MSM to pick up.
  
  If you want to make a difference go over to the MoveOn website or Huffpo. They at least report the real news over there and its readers comment on it. Whit the real news blackout on TheBlaze which happened in I think it was January of last year just in time for the election cycle, you wont find anything remotely resembling news here.
  
  Which would you rather do, comment with conservatives about cow tipping and wether a youtube video is real or challenge a progressive on their illogic on gun control.
  
  TheBlaze is a very amusing place, for knitting circles.
  
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Kara_ite
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:38am
My father was in the Air Force in WWII. He never killed anyone with his gun, by the time he was through with training, the war was over, he never saw battle. He trained here in the states and on some islands in the Pacific. He served in the Korean war. He did not go to Vietnam as he was already out of the Air Force. He owned a gun or two his entire life. When he was six years old he had to sleep in the back room of his dad’s business (small gas station/garage/grocery store) to keep looters from coming in.
He hunted and we ate what he hunted. He was a butcher by trade so nothing went to waste. He just recently died. He went for 81 years with guns and never had to shoot anyone. But, no one made him turn in his guns. Now we have a regime who can’t remember past last week. They are all fired up against gun owners and NRA members. They are the problem, not the peace loving gun owners who served their country and added to the economy.
If they really want to get serious, they would all descend on Chicago and high crime cities and put an end to gang violence and murders. But all they want to do is push the EASY button. They do not want to have to think through the situation. They have to pick up their pay checks and get all their freebies and head out of town to celebrate Kwanza, X-mas, and whatever trumped up holidays they celebrate. How many innocent people will die while they are lifting glasses and celebrating? (do a search on murders in Chicago this year)

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- thequeenbee
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:12pm
  AMEN. Well said.
  
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- buckeyetater
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Great share. Thank you. My Dad is 81 he sounds a lot like your Dad.
  
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- beps
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 12:45pm
  Only a gun can match another gun (thus the phrase, don’t bring a knife to a gun-fight); a good aim could have stopped this premeditated-murdering psychopath. We have a God-given right to defend ourselves!
  
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SavvyCowboy
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:35am
Very sad indeed – no words can describe what happened last Friday other than a monster from hell murdered 26 people. However since 1973 we have murdered 60 MILLION unborn children and NOBODY seems to care. We label it “choice” rather than what it is – MURDER. When we throw God under the bus, we reap the “reward” of the evil one, satan.

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- J.C. McGlynn
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:46am
  Made me think maybe this is what happens when some call murder (abortion) a choice.
  
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- J.C. McGlynn
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:53am
  Made me think maybe this is what happens when some justify murder (abortions) as a choice because it cheapens life.
  
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- Rillobymorning
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Well said and absolutely true!
  
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- eyeswideopeninNE
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:34pm
  We’ve been saying the same thing….where is the outrage and mourning for all the babies murdered daily.????? No disrespect to what just took place in CT, there does need to be a time to mourn those babies and my heart breaks for the family members, also the children who witnessed it. At the same time you want to label the killer a lunatic, what is a mother who murders her own child labeled as????? BTW search on the daddies of the CT murderer and the CO theater murderer– connected. HMMMMM something is not right………
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:56pm
  You’re right. If you don’t personally know the child it seems easier for some to disconnect.If a mouth breathing moron assaults his pregnant girlfriend, he can be charged, yet the mother can do the same thing legally for a price$$…makes no sense. This really isn’t the story today, but should be part of the conversation on respecting life.
  
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- hamradio
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:18pm
  You are correct. The Democratic party in this country has become a party of death with their abortion at any stage or age, death panels and abortion drugs. Now VP Bite-me is going to head up a commision? The man is a fool in every Biblical sense of the word.
  
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SpeaksFreely99
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:27am
We should arm more teachers and administrators. Our children have the right to live and learn free from fear. We have the right to defend ourselves from tyranny. Look up tyranny, and decided for yourselves what you need to do. I have enough guns, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t get more.

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- deeberj
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:09pm
  All of these shootings take place in a gun free zone. What does that tell you?
  
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SpeaksFreely99
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:21am
No words to describe the grief from such a horrible tragedy. This precious child wrote from his heart something that he believes. We should learn something from John.

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MainMan
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:20am
Only a matter of time before atheist want it removed. Separation of church and state and all that.

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Lion420
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:16am
This is why I want to own a gun. Life is sacred and needs protecting.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:55am
Little John’s parents should be very proud of him. They should be proud of themselves, too. They’re raising a fine young man.

It’ll be no time at all before Jack and John are playing together again. That’ll be a joyous day.

P.S. Don’t ever buy a Gateway monitor. Stupid thing keeps going blurry on me.

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- mary12153
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:20am
  My ACER goes blurry too…… wait…. those are tears in my eyes.
  
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CABERNETQHS
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:53am
If any good can from such complete devastation and pure evil, it’s maybe people will pray more, cherish each other more…I don’t know how else to process this. Poor babies. I just want to wrap my arms around them all, but I know Jesus was there for them that day to greet them in heaven.

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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:48am
Precious expression of love…. this little boy’s note to his friend says it all. What a wonderful world it would be, if everyone could love each other as purely and simply as this.

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RadioPatriot
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:36am
If everyone were as connected to faith as this little boy is, we’d be a better nation. He understands that there is a “beyond”, one we will all be answerable to sooner or later. I hope this little guy never loses his belief that there is a heaven (and a God). It’s just a shame that the shooter didn’t.

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rcguy
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:13am
Beck does take alot of time off. Almost as bad as Obama.

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- FreeCarolJoy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:49am
  Yep, but Glenn truly works when he is on, not like O who only campaigns and picks and chooses what he will do that will benefit himself.
  
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- beps
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 11:29am
  Please get some Christmas cheer; it’s about the children! No time to belly-ache. I have no problem with a winter vacation to spend time with family. Besides, we get to hear from new & interesting hosts. Get real!
  
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Maxim Crux
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:51am
Enough with the profiteering

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:20am
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I’m glad to know there are no more tears in heaven………….

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- @leftfighter
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:47am
  …but there are here on Earth.
  
  My screen is blurry.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:03am
Oh crap…. & here i was, thinking i was all cried out :(

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- DagneyT
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:18am
  My thoughts precisely!
  
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- beps
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:51am
  Commiserate with you…purity, sweetness, innocence, buddies. Parents, know that we mourn with you & pray for your strength & comfort & know that your precious babies are wrapped in our Heavenly Fathers arms.
  
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biohazard23
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:55am
Yep, my heart is still breaking and the tears are still coming….

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- GrayPanther
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:53am
  Amen. And when the grieving passes, we must seek faster reporting and quicker support for those with mental illness, Clearly, Sandy Hook shows bright people are usually less able to deal with a child who needs help early on. Intervention must be a part of the solution to stop future incidents. Will the ACLU help or hinder the process? You may recall in the 60′s the ACLU required such patients to be freed from mental institutions and put in the general population.
  
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- deeberj
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:07pm
  About the mental illness thing. I guess we can make mental wellness info or help more available, but you realize the gov’t would have to pay for it and t herefore our taxes would pay for it so it would be a new expense. And we really can’t start forcing adults to get mental help or force them into an institution unless they are deemed harmful to themselves or others. Do you want the courts or parents being able to do that to someone they worry might be harmful? That is a slippery slope I don’t want us on. The end result of that could be relatives putting away a pesky grandfather who won’t let the grandkids take his house and money. Or the gov’t deciding fundamentalist Christians are mentally ill and putting them in some sort of institution like a FEMA camp.
  
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alrunner58
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:47am
My heart goes out to family and friends of these children. I have grandkids that age and I tear up thinking about what this town is going through. I will pray for all of you and God Bless.

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KalanVA
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:45am
“I will talk to you in my prayers” more wisdom than most adults.

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50211bs
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:45am
Wow! All I can say is out of the mouths of babes comes truth in the face of tragedy.

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- searching for the Truth
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:50am
  Very well said.
  
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Rikkif
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:41am
I can’t yet come to grips with this, how sick and evil can one human be? You should all look up the story of Dylan and his Aid… Strength to all the community members of Newtown… We’re here for you all.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 9:34am
  Agree with all you’ve said. But don’t forget the ANGER that must have nurtured this terrible act . The anger that Obama Chicago radicals will ignore mentioning in all of their sanctimonious speeches to cover their current, targeted agenda : gun control. The anger that the Chicago radicals have used to divide this country for the past four years over race, class, politics, gender, religion and age. All to foster their agenda : to “change” America which is ” Code ” for destroying capitalism and fostering a more atheistic, Big Brother form of government.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:01am
  I don’t EVER want to come to grips with this type of evil. I still get teared up every Sept 11th when I watch a tribute ceremony or revisit news clips from that day. My life moves on but I never want to forget that feeling. WE can use it to make sure we never go there, never become that, and are ever vigilant in looking out for those that might perpetrate this evil and stop them before they can. Every story, every news clip, and every mention of this tragedy, like Sept 11th or OKC or Fort Hood or VT should fill us with a drive for vigilance, honor, courage, and a passion to know our God in Heaven so that we may stop as many of these as possible in the future.
  
  Think of what might have been had Adam had a strong father in his life that taught him with his mother the importance of human life, illness or no. What if that father and mother had taught their boys about firearm safety and use instead of just a mother trying to connect with her boys whose father was estranged.
  
  Is it Adam’s fault? absolutely, he knew and functioned enough to know what guns do.
  Does the mother bare some blame? yes, her guns should have been locked away if she knew she had a son that was prone to violent outbursts
  Does the father bare some blame? yes, he should have played a larger role in his son’s life not simply skittered off to NJ.
  Do guns, gun owners, and gun manufacturers bare some blame? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!
  
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