Congresswoman Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, said Friday afternoon she is at a loss for words in response to the tragic massacre in Connecticut that has shocked the entire nation.
"Watching in horror and disbelief at what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School this morning, I can’t find words to describe the shock and sadness I am feeling for the children and adults who were senselessly murdered," Speier said.
"My thoughts and prayers are with the parents, families and school employees in Newtown, Connecticut who are confronting an unspeakable tragedy," she said.
The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning horrified the nation and left parents questioning how they can protect their children.
Twenty-seven people were killed—the majority of them children between the ages of 5 and 10—at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. The violence is the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
"The senseless taking of 26 lives raises so many questions about why this happened and what can be done to make certain it is not repeated elsewhere. But these questions have been asked before and each time the response has been one of grief followed by inaction," Speier said.
"Perhaps, this latest tragedy will lead to the kind of policies that will effectively prevent troubled people in this country from obtaining guns capable of massacring innocent people," she said.
Look at that last paragraph the rep. Speier says in his statement: he wants policies to prevent trouble people from getting guns . Where is his head at?!? These people don't buy these guns legally like good citizens. There criminals and buy them from other criminals. Get real rep speier. You are suppose to be representing us and you can't see that gun policies won't stop killings like this. And who is going to evaluate each person that buys a gun. We need to do something to protect are children & families from these senseless murders.
Jackie Spier was shot five times by Jim Jones's guards and whats changed? Well she is busy working on legislation that protects LGBT people from medical practices that try and change them back to heterosexual. http://speier.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=848:congresswoman-jackie-speier-calls-for-end-to-lgbt-conversion-quackery-introduces-stop-harming-our-kids-shok-resolution&catid=1:press-releases&Itemid=14 All while our children are being shot in our schools.
Hey alvy, I bet I can go to Jackies page and find a ton of stuff she is working on? Yes you pick one thing about LGBT? You really just sound like a Homophobic armchair loudmouth with your prozac mother bs. Maybe you are describing yourself?
You are REAL...most of these blowhards HERE are fearful big mouths that think they need a gun to survive. And I guess they do b/c if they met your people, (Your peeps ) would smell the fear oozing off their azzes. You realize there is not "THEM" vs us, it is all we, on this earth, human family all interconnected. Moviestar, lawyer, dr. postman or thief, we are all cut from the same cloth, some have the breaks and some do not. But we are all the same, clothes,titles & monied or not is meaningless.
Gabby Giffords had a GLOCK....DO YOU HEAR ME? She had a Glock and was shot point blank...with another glock. That is your wild west days, yesterday wild west. You people are out of your flippin' minds.
BTW: I never said I was sane however I think I have a leg up on you. ;)
character” (Source: Harvey Milk letter to President Jimmy Carter, Feb. 19, 1978) Harvey Milk Lobbied Jimmy Carter to let Jim Jones have custody of a six-year-old boy, who Jones later poisoned Milk wrote, “Not only is the life of a child at stake, who presently have loving protective parents in Rev. and Mrs. Jones….” (Source: Harvey Milk letter to President Jimmy Carter, Feb. 19, 1978)
or the line.... "I'm writing a book about my mother....Its called the castrating Zionist" f you take psychology in college, you will learn all about how mothers all across this world are the cause of mental illness in children. There are plenty of examples of Serial Killers who all had crazy, neglectful or abusive mothers. As a society what has been done about that concept? Nothing. What we should do is pass legislation that charges the mothers with murder if something like this occurs, and provide treatment for the child who was abused. That for sure will put an end to it.