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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Sandy Hook Commission Told a Nation Awaits Answers

By Mark Pazniokas

www.ctmirror.org

The governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission opened its inquiry into the nation’s worst elementary school shooting today with admonitions to resist hasty conclusions and a warning that a detailed police account of 20-year-old Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage is months away.

Bill Ritter, a former Colorado district attorney and governor who served on a similar commission that studied the Columbine shooting for a year, told the commissioners they bear the burden of trying to explain and draw lessons from the massacre of 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

“You can expect that your audience will be the people of Newtown, certainly the people of Connecticut,” Ritter said. “But the nation watches, and the nation asks questions and wants to understand why and how these kinds of tragic events continue to occur.”

It was a somber and sobering start for a group tasked by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy with the responsibility of recommending changes in gun laws, school security and mental health practices in the wake of Lanza’s assault on the Newtown school with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle.

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