A father of a Newtown student holds it together better than I could describing his reaction to the news of the shooting.
I try not to, or I generally have no interest in writing things that amount to counsels of despair or suggestions that there’s no possible solution. But I have a hard time not doing that in this case. Many of you have kids. I have kids. These school shootings, a subset of the no less horific mass shooting phenomenon, seem like they’re becoming more common (though I’d be curious to hear whether there are hard statistics on this.) But this one seems, feels like it’s in a whole different category — the age of the children, the number of fatalities. I’m not sure any of that requires saying more. You get it. Read More
Jay Carney’s press briefing at the White House coincided with the initial reports of the enormity of the death toll in Newtown, Conn., so he was somewhat handicapped in his responses: Read More
Hartford Courant: “One entire classroom is unaccounted for, sources said.”
TPMLivewire has running coverage of the horrific news coming out of Newtown, Conn.
Update: Because of the news coming from Newtown today, we’re going to postpone this chat to next week. You can continue submitting your questions, but Brian will not respond to them until a date TBD next week.
Heads up that I’ll be doing a live chat with TPM Prime members at 4 p.m. this afternoon.
Topics include the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling, taxes, health care and any of the myriad silly things Congress does. Get your questions in now.
Fox Contributor hires “heavily armed” ex-cop to guard home, wife after alleged threats.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to resign as Israeli FM following indictment … Read More
President says prosecuting marijuana users in pot-legal states not a “top priority.”