Churches Asked to Ring Bells for School Shooting Victims
Friday will mark one week since 20 children and six adults were killed when a gunman opened fire in a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
Kennesaw is asking local churches to remember the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. Twenty-six people—20 of them children—were killed Friday when a man opened fire inside the school. The suspected shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, committed suicide and his mother was found dead at the home where the two lived, according to Newtown Patch. The following message appears on Kennesaw's website: Local cities are joining in a Georgia Municipal Association initiative to encourage their local churches to ring their bells 26 times on Friday at 9:30 am in memory of the twenty children and six adults who lost their lives during the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. We appreciate your consideration of …
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Pete
1:26 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
You cannot eliminate crazy.. You can only hope to contain it, and rules and regulations and laws are in place to do that.. That said, I find it a much better mission for our military to have a deputized soldier posted in every school rather than fighting a hopeless holy war in the middle east. Wouldn't cost us a dime more in taxes than what we already pay... more ›