news blog | December 17, 2012 | 18 comments

Following Sandy Hook, gun deaths continue through weekend

By Jo Piazza / current.com / @jopiazza

The families of Sandy Hook, Conn., struggled to cope with the enormous grief of losing 28 of their neighbors, 20 of them children over the weekend.

President Barack Obama pledged to use whatever power the office of the presidency holds to prevent another tragedy like this one. 

And elsewhere in the country, people continued to die from gun fire.

(More from Current: Occupy takes on the NRA) 

On Saturday, shootings in Cleburne and Oxford counties in Alabama left two injured and three dead, including a child. 

A sheriff's deputy in Missouri was shot in the back and killed while on the scene responding to an emergency medical situation. The patient's son ambushed the officer and shot him at close range in the back. 

Authorities investigated the shooting death of a boy in southwest Denver.

A man was shot and killed in Harrisburg, Pa., his body dropped off at a local hospital.

A Nevada man shot and killed himself on Friday after shooting his girlfriend in the face. 

In the early morning hours of Saturday, police responded to a murder/suicide. A 76-year-old man shot and killed a 51-year old woman with a rifle in California City, Calif. 

A 28-year-old man was shot and killed while standing on a front porch early Sunday on the West Side of Chicago.

A 21-year-old man was shot and killed by someone he knew in Charlotte, N.C..

Two Topeka, Kan., police officers were fatally shot in the head outside a grocery store Sunday responding to a suspicious vehicle report.

The tattoo artist in a Los Angeles tattoo parlor was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Sunday. 

Eliot Spitzer's message to Barack Obama on gun control:

These stories represent only a handful of the deaths from gun violence that took place in the 72 hours since Adam Lanza stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School. 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg put it best on Friday:

"For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns." 

(Photo from Getty Images)

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18 comments // Following Sandy Hook, gun deaths continue through weekend

  • Richard23
  • Sundalecat
    • 0
      Sundalecat  

    • Please stop with "Banning Guns will do nothing" (It has cut violent crime in California), "Guns don't kill people, people Kill people, (A person without a semi-automatic gun would have tough time killing 26 people) and "I want it in case my government goes bad" (if this happens you will be wiped out anyway, and it is not likely because we have a democratically elected government). I am an ex marksman at target shooting. I really don't need a semi-automatic weapon.

    • 5 months ago
  • Idadho
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      Idadho  

    • So, if I make a list of the approximately 225,000 deaths due to medical errors in the US each year, will that convince Obama to take action to more strictly regulate the medical decisions of health care workers? Sounds like the 2700 pages of ObamaCare will be woefully inadequate to reduce such deaths.
      We should also put greater restrictions on possession of the containers that hold alcoholic beverages. Without the cans and bottles, nobody would get drunk and kill thousands of people on our highways.

    • 5 months ago
  • hombre76
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      hombre76  

    • So if I make a list of vehicle fatalities in the last 24 hours across the US will that convince anyone that we should ban or more strictly regulate cars?

    • 5 months ago
  • Mary_Mckay_Smalley
  • hombre76
  • turnip48
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      turnip48  
    • hombre76:

      If you think this is a good argument then you need educating.Automobiles are not weapons.The majority of incidents with cars are accidents.They ARE subject to regulations.Anybody wanting to own a gun is abnormal!

    • 5 months ago
  • ucla8bruin
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      ucla8bruin  
    • turnip48:

      You're an idiot ... If you try to run over a police officer you will get charged with assault with a deadly weapon which means in the eyes of the law an automobile can be considered a weapon... Anyone can make arguments either way on gun control. It should be a personal choice

    • 5 months ago
  • ucla8bruin
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      ucla8bruin  
    • turnip48:

      Oh and there are plenty of non weapons that have killed people through out the years screwdrivers, ice picks, piano wire etc .... The list is a very long one so your argument that an automobile isn't a weapon is null and void anyway.

    • 5 months ago
  • turnip48
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      turnip48  
    • ucla8bruin:

      A car is not percieved as a weapon and if you extend your argument then any object is a weapon.From a golf club to a condom.Its just easier with a hand gun or an assault rifle.You are now thinking how would you kill someone with a condom?Its easier than you might think.

    • 5 months ago
  • ucla8bruin
  • hombre76
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      hombre76  
    • turnip48:

      So whats your point? Most deaths with firearms are accidents too. As for abnormal I don't know any Abi Normal. Why don't you go find her and see what she thinks about your points?

    • 5 months ago
  • punman
  • Ricky84
  • hombre76
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      hombre76  
    • punman:

      Ya I'm glad we did not overreact and create rules that are only platitudes to the dangers we face and further have no effect on the desired outcome of said dangers.

    • 5 months ago
  • cmc101
  • letsliveinpeace
  • mrpuma2u
    • +2
      mrpuma2u  

    • What is the pro-gun lobby's next move? I am waiting for them to justify the deaths of these kids, and the thousands yearly. More then 9/11 every year.

    • 5 months ago
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