Young shooting victim 'could light up a room'
The community surrounding Sandy Hook Elementary School is struggling to come to terms with the tragic shooting of 20 primary school children.
The victims of Friday's shooting have now all been identified.
Six-year-old Emilie Parker was among 12 girls and eight boys who lost their lives.
Her father, Robbie, says the family are struggling with an incomprehensible loss.
"I don't, I don't know, I don't know how to get through something like this. My wife and I don't understand how to process all of this and how to get our lives going.
"She was just the type of person that could just light up a room. She always had something kind to say about anybody and her love and the strength that she gave us and the example that she showed us is remarkable. She is an incredible person and I'm so blessed to be her dad."
Law enforcement officials have identified 20-year-old Adam Lanza as the gunman.
A police cordon is in place around the area where he killed his mother Nancy, before heading to the school where he forced his way in.
In total, 28 people - including the gunman - lost their lives, making it one of the worst shootings in U.S. history.
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Kurt Waschnig
Dec 16th 2012, 18:41
After I read the article and watched the video and listened to the father of the 6year old girl and saw him cry and looking for words, I feel deep sadness and there is no rational explanation possible why that young guy was able to kill children and adults. I feel sorry for the families. The whole city is under shock.
Jonathan Farrugia
Dec 17th 2012, 09:55
agree 100%. I still cannot understand why these young girls and boys?
Alex Ellul
Dec 16th 2012, 17:07
Mike Huckabee says it like it is:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2038135300001/
Alex Ellul
Dec 16th 2012, 17:06
We have always had guns, for centuries we have had guns, but it is anly now that we have young men who shoot innocent children and their teachers and then turn their gun on themselves. Leets go back to the old times, teach the kids to love God neighbour, to repect family, to not covet other people's money and property, not to be corrupt like many of our law makers have become...
Alex Ellul
Dec 16th 2012, 17:02
One may have a million guns in his possession, but if he has no evil intent then nothing will happen. The problem is that we have removed God from our lives. We have drove him away, removed him foorm out constitutions, from our schools and from our courts of law. We have replaced him with liberal/leftist-humanism that preaches anti-God/Christain propoganda and are now reaping the results.
A Spiteri
Dec 16th 2012, 18:41
Then how do you explain that prisons in the US are comprised of 80% Christians and 1% atheists. God has got nothing to do with it, you don't need God to be a good person. The problem is that this person had a mental problem which was not addressed properly. If the US removed the tax exemptions of the Church they would have 70 Billion dollars in resources to invest in better mental healthcare.
Alex Ellul
Dec 16th 2012, 16:58
This tragedy has got nothing to do with guns, gun control laws and the US constitution. The state of Connecticut has the 5th strictest gun laws in the whole of the US. The problem is the evil that has entered our society by design. Today, our kids do not attend Sunday school and they are not thought the ten commandments,though shall respect thy mother&father though shall not kill, though shall
Charles Grixti
Dec 17th 2012, 06:39
How about the entertainment industry, both cinema and computer games of such violence and bloodshed that one would think this is the normal way to behave. And this is certainly being done by design. The military wants them preptrained and desensitized. Is it any wonder that young men put on battle fatigues and go out on a rampage - why they are heros!
A Cardona
Dec 16th 2012, 16:17
Apparently whatever the founding fathers stated back some 240 years ago is more important than anything else in the US.
May God help these poor parents go through this tragedy... a tragedy which hopefully wont repeat itself.
Peter Murray
Dec 16th 2012, 14:00
This massascre of the innocents is simply too dreadful to contemplate let alone try to understand.However,why is it that all photos of the poor tragic victims published (I have sadly seen 4 ) are all of young girls- when 8 young boys perished alongside 12 young ladies also?
Andrea Hawkes
Dec 16th 2012, 17:05
Have you thought, it might actually have something to do with the fact that their families don't want their son or daughter plastered all over the news channels or newspapers????
Monica Muscat
Dec 16th 2012, 13:44
I would rather say: restrict licences to those who really need them, an clamp down on the illegal "hand to hand" "under the bench" gun dealing. This might be brought to happen with hard work and disciplined police forces. As for the rest: What is needed is the return the old values - the sacred value of human lives!
Only Prayer could bring this about. Without the latter, or is vain.
Mark Falzon
Dec 16th 2012, 13:12
Oh, I forgot. The more of these tragedies happen the more Discovery Channel does its best to promote program's based on firearms:
American Guns
Sons of Guns
Keep up the good work discovery channel!!!!!
Mark Falzon
Dec 16th 2012, 12:52
The message is clear – BAN GUNS TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
James Tyrrell
Dec 16th 2012, 14:59
And what effect would that have? If you removed every legally held gun in America you would just create a situation where the criminals could have a field day knowing that they could do whatever they wanted with their illegally held guns and people couldn't protect themselves. Whatever laws are passed you can't get rid of the criminally insane from society.
Robb Stark
Dec 16th 2012, 11:05
Australia suffered 13 mass murders between 1981 and 1996. In the 16 years since the gun law reforms: zero. No more excuses please America.
Peter Murray
Dec 16th 2012, 13:56
Guns dont kill people- for its bulletsthat need reforms applied to them!
Rita Borg
Dec 16th 2012, 14:18
guns = votes
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