Yesterday’s tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut stunned our nation and Hollywood has taken notice. In addition to the hundreds of celebrity tweets about the horrific event, television networks and film studios have scrambled to rearrange their schedules and shelf potentially sensitive episodes of several popular programs. Continue reading
Barack Obama was not just a president today. He was a broken-hearted man, a father, an aching American citizen.
The President, the father, the American, the grief-stricken man was moved to tears as he shared his condolences about the horrific Newtown, Connecticut elementary school shootings.
Here are the president’s words — a transcript of his speech address to the Nation:
I offer Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every single resource he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families. Continue reading
My heart is broken on one hand and outraged on the other for the families in Newtown, Connecticut who lost everything when at least one gunman opened fire today at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The horrific and senseless tragedy has reportedly taken the lives of at least 20 young children and is now the second deadliest shooting massacre in US history.
Celebrities all over the country are horrified and shaken about this news as are the rest of us. Here is what they have sent via Twitter, many of whom are begging and urging for tougher gun control laws: Continue reading