NBC anchor Megyn Kelly's upcoming interview with «InfoWars» host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has resulted in a firestorm of criticism, notably from the families of Sandy
Hook shooting victims.
The Sandy
Hook shooting in 2012 had more of a direct impact on Remington, as one of its Bushmaster rifles was used in that massacre.
The anniversary of the Sandy
Hook shooting is a particularly painful day for the parents of the young children who were murdered.
Natalie Barden, a 16 - year - old sophomore at Newtown High School in Connecticut, was a preteen when she lost her younger brother, Daniel, in 2012, during the Sandy
Hook shooting.
After the Sandy
Hook shooting, Remington was able to borrow millions more as gun production boomed, particularly heading into the 2016 presidential election because Hillary Clinton was expected to win and push for tighter gun controls.
From left, Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, 14, who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida; Francine Wheeler, mother of Ben Wheeler, 6, a victim of the Sandy
Hook shooting, and Lori Haas, mother of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, during a meeting with Senate Democrats about gun violence last month.
• The bankruptcy of Remington, one of the country's oldest gunmakers, has stalled a ruling in a lawsuit by family members of those killed in the Sandy
Hook shooting.
Mark Barden, whose son died in the Sandy
Hook shooting, said he thought, «Here we are again, this time, another time, with a room full of people... who are just now starting this journey after another horrific mass shooting.»
«There was an overall sense of frustration, and at times anger, because of the amount of time it took for the families to receive the final word,» an official state report about the Sandy
Hook shooting said.
Therefore, natural disasters (such as the recent tornado outbreak, the Asian tsunami of 2004, the Japanese earthquake, sickness, cancer, accidents) as well as evil perpetuated by others (the Sandy
Hook shootings, the Boston bombings, the Holocaust, 9 - 11) are merely expressions of this god's unending, unquenchable, and unpredictable wrath upon humankind.
The 2012 Sandy
Hook shooting killed 20 children and six adults, and in the wake of the tragedy, InfoWars host Alex Jones accused the grieving parents of being «crisis actors.»
And when there is trouble at home, like Hurricane Sandy or the Sandy
Hook shooting, almost everything else gets thrown out or squeezed into the back print pages or the leftover broadcast minutes to make space for information on the crisis at hand.
Many people of differing political identities decried the interview before seeing it because it purportedly gave a platform — and therefore, sense of credibility — to the radio show host, who has claimed and stands by unfounded theories that the Sandy
Hook shooting was a hoax staged by the U.S. government and that Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S., among many other alarming conspiracies claimed without real evidence.
Stanley, pastor of North Point Community Church, suggested the president should be called «pastor in chief» for his leadership following the Sandy
Hook shootings.
In light of the Sandy
Hook shootings, the National Rifle Association has gone into hibernation on almost every front, including a social media blackout.
He became one of the main gun control advocates in the Senate after the Sandy
Hook shooting.
Margaret rarely sees a game and, although she can cite a few names and statistics, she does not know the difference between
a hook shot and a layup.
CLIFF HAGAN, F, St. Louis Hawks Played alongside all - timer Bob Pettit in the Hawks» frontcourt for nineseasons; fierce competitor with a great
hook shot who finished with career NBAaverages of 18.0 points and 6.9 rebounds.
He has added a righty
hook shot to his post repertoire, while his offensive rebounding rate (15.2) ranks 24th nationally.
In the first two minutes he put in
a hook shot, blocked a Lucas shot, then sank another hook shot.
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The game actually was tied at 38 with just seconds left... Captain Chris Valvassori sunk
a hook shot to take the lead by two points and Team Audley came up just short with an in - and - out desperation 3.
Bubba Watson's a whiz at making wicked
hook shots from pine straw under pressure.
As for that miraculous
hook shot from the trees on the second playoff hole on Masters Sunday?
Rudy Gay's
hook shot with just under 14 seconds remaining proved to be the game - winner, and allowed the Memphis Grizzlies to steal a victory from the Philadelphia 76ers on the road, 103 - 100, on Monday night.
Edmonton made it 2 - 0 with 5 1/2 minutes to play in the second when Mark Letestu
hooked a shot in front to help Kassian score his seventh.
Chandler is responsible for so many different moving parts on defense, Hibbert should be able to find space for his 12 - footers and
hook shots.
He spun his way through the paint like a point guard, yet reached up for
hook shots like a center.
Midway through the game, Les Hall, who's now a beefy realtor in Williamsburg, stuffed a weak
hook shot back in Hornsby's face.
One of the cuts on Scenes from the Southside is The Old Playground, and according to Hornsby, if you understand that song, you've got a pretty good idea of how he made it through the hard times, how he can draw a direct line from mastering
a hook shot to cutting a demo.
A long jumper, a drive to the basket, a mean post-up and
hook shot for two, a deft pass to a cutter for an and - one.
He also made all four of his free throws and had two impressive moves in the post, including a running
hook shot in traffic as he was fading away.
Towns hits
a hook shot, and Wiggins gets the steal for the Wolves.
The 80 - yard run or that long, last
hook shot that won the game for good old — you name the school.
And though I had
a hook shot before, he taught me how to put that extra little arch on it.
Coach Lou Rossini's resourceful Violets ran with Marquette's rapid pass - flickers and finally beat the Hilltoppers 70 - 69 on Al Filardi's
hook shot with 45 seconds to play.
In the final the Texans broke to an early lead on
the hook shooting of Charlie Sharp (who scored 150 points in five games), made Westminster come to them and beat the Titans 66 - 44 for the championship.
HOW WATSON WON: From the right trees, he hit
a hook shot that found the green on the second playoff hole, No. 10.
Newcastle had the first when Mitrovic
hooked his shot over the bar from Andros Townsend's cross, while Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone saved from Townsend 12 minutes later and Jonjo Shelvey was inches wide with a 31st - minute free - kick.
Off the top of my head I can remember a Diaby header and
a hooked shot by Song going wide, a free - kick from van Persie saved and another header by the Dutchman crashing the bar before he finally bulged the net, slamming home a clever Arshavin pass after good work by Bendtner.
Participants include: US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack; First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray; MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews, Joy - Ann Reid and Krystal Ball; talk show host Wendy Williams, the parents of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis; parents of Sandy
Hook shooting victim Ana Marquez - Greene; Harvard University Professor Dr. Charles Ogletree; NBC News legal analyst and author Lisa Bloom; William H. «Billy» Murphy Jr., Esq.; Essence Magazine notables Michelle Ebanks and Susan Taylor; Viacom's Marva Smalls; The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel; actor Malik Yoba; and members of Congress.
Of all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy
Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growth.
Frank was leading a group of 26 cyclists, representing each of the lives lost in the Sandy
Hook shootings, in a 400 - mile bike ride from Newtown to Washington, D.C., to urge Congress to improve gun laws.
A group of 26 cyclists, representing each life lost in the Sandy
Hook shootings, traveled through Harlem to urge Congress to improve gun laws.
Lori Haas, right, the mother of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, hugs Francine Wheeler, center, mother of Ben Wheeler, who was killed in the Sandy
Hook shooting, as Fred Guttenberg, left, the father of 14 - year - old Jaime Guttenberg, who was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, arrives to speak during a Democratic meeting to hear from survivors of gun violence and family members of victims.
Hochul recalled the 7,000 pairs of shoes placed upon the Capitol lawn in Washington this week to mark the number of children killed by guns since the 2012 Sandy
Hook shooting.
Gun culture runs deep across upstate, where many remain bitterly opposed to the SAFE Act, the controversial state gun control legislation passed after the Sandy
Hook shooting in 2012.
-LSB-...] One of the editors involved in publishing «gun maps» in the wake of the Sandy
Hook shooting massacre was recently laid off by NY's Journal News, along with dozens of other staff, according to the Rockland Times.
But the trends that occurred after the Sandy
Hook shooting presented an opportunity to better explore this relationship.
The study, «Using Web - Based Search Data to Study the Public's Reactions to Societal Events: The Case of the Sandy
Hook Shooting,» was published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.