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To: The community of Newtown; the survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting, and the families of the victims
Our Sincere Condolences.
We wish to express our deepest sympathies to all of the families of those lost, to the survivors and their families, and to the others impacted by the senseless and unthinkable tragedy that unfolded at Sandy Hook Elementary School. We cannot begin to comprehend the...
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Please take a moment to express your sympathy, condolences, and support for the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, for the survivors and their families, and for the community of Newtown, Connecticut.
Location: Newtown, CT
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Update #16
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on May 1Friends,
I wanted to address some of the comments on this page. First, this is not about taking away anyone's Second Amendment right to bear arms. I fully support the Second Amendment. I also want to assure everyone that if you signed the Sympathy Card, your name is not being used for any other petition. Here's background on what's happened to this Cause since the shooting: After we delivered the Sympathy Card to the Sandy Hook families in December, 2012, we wanted to find a way...
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Update #15
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Apr 11Your voices are being heard! This morning (4/11/13) the U.S. Senate voted 68-31, including 16 Republicans, to approve the start of debate on a key measure that would require criminal background checks for most gun sales, except those between private parties and neighbors. This is a key initial victory for those who support common sense solutions to reduce gun violence. This measure was supported by many conservative, gun-owning Senators on both sides of the aisle. Visit: http://causes.com/f...
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Update #14
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Apr 10If you support common sense legislation that would require criminal background checks for gun sales, and limit high capacity magazines like those used by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School, please review and sign our new petition supporting this legislation at: Families For Gun Safety. The U.S. Senate is scheduled to take action on this legislation tomorrow (Thursday, 4/11/13).
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Update #13
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Apr 9Dear Friends of Sandy Hook,
Thanks again for signing the Global Sympathy Card, which recently surpassed more than 2.5 million signatures from concerned people in more than 140 nations.
Now's the time to join the fight for common sense legislation to help prevent another Sandy Hook tragedy! Click below to read the letter signed by relatives of the victims, urging the U.S. Senate to support meaningful legislation that would, among other things, limit high capacity magazine clips and require...
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Update #12
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Feb 14Today, Valentines Day, marks the two-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. Please join me and many others in sending a "virtual valentine" to the families of those lost and injured, and the community of Newtown. Here's where to go -- it's a wonderful thing!
http://www.causes.com/actions/1732042-send-a-valentine-today-to-the-families-of-sandy-hook?ctm=home
David
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Update #11
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Jan 17UPDATE: In just three days, the Sandy Hook Promise (the community's follow-up to the National Sympathy Card) has already passed 50,000 signatures in Causes. But we need you to add your voice! Help us keep the national momentum alive for real change that reduces long-term gun violence in America. Join this movement today by Making the Promise now at: http://causes.com/sandyhookpromise.
PS: Here's a link to a great story today by Lisa Belkin on the key role that all parents must play in...
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Update #10
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Jan 15In just 24 hours, more than 30,000 people have already signed the Sandy Hook Promise on Causes, and over 60,000 including at the sandyhookpromise.org website. Here's a link the lead story about the launch of Sandy Hook Promise in the New York Times this morning: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/nyregion/newtown-school-massacre-families-organize-on-gun-violence.html
If you haven't already done so, please consider signing the Promise yourself to help support a constructive national dialogue...
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Update #9
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 29, 2012Just a quick update. We are just 15,000 signatures away from reaching a remarkable 2.5 million people who have joined in signing the Sandy Hook Sympathy Card. Any help you can provide by forwarding it to more friends would be much appreciated. We plan to keep this card open and are now exploring donating the page to the Sandy Hook families so they can continue to make the card available on their own website, which should launch soon.
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Update #8
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 23, 2012The final three funerals for the 26 victims were held on Saturday. Laid to rest were Emilie Parker, 6; Josephine Gay, 7; and Ana Marquez-Greene, 6, marking the end of a very difficult week of services for the community. Please take a moment to send out one more request inviting your friends to sign the online sympathy card at http://causes.com/sandyhookcard.
Friends and family were asked to wear the color purple at Josephine Gay's funeral --- the little girl's favorite color. She had just...
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Update #7
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 22, 2012Friends,
Last night, at the candlelight vigil in Newtown, we formally presented the Global Sympathy Card, and the first 20,000 signatures to Newtown First Selectman Patricia Llodra and more than 2,000 members of the community who attended the ceremony honoring the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The town plans to display the card and some of the signatures at its municipal building. Here is a link to the story mentioning the card in USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/s...
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Update #6
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 21, 2012Friends,
Thanks to the tireless efforts over the past 12 hours by the Causes programming team, a remarkable custom landing page for the Sandy Hook Sympathy Card went live today, at http://causes.com/sandyhookcard. This beautiful page, donated by Causes, displays the names of EVERY person who has signed the card to date (and those who will sign it in the future.) The page also displays on a rotating basis some of the more than 170,000 comments that so many of you have posted on our page...
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Update #5
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 20, 2012Friends,
I am pleased to report that we have been invited to formally present the National Sympathy Card to First Selectman Patricia Llodra and the community of Newtown at the candle light vigil on Friday, December 21, at 7pm at Fairfield Hills in Newtown. The township also hopes to display some of the signatures at its Municipal Center, subject to space. Tomorrow we will have more information also on the beautiful new web landing page that Causes.com is custom creating to support the...
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Update #4
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 18, 2012Important Update: The Governor of Connecticut has called on the nation to observe this Friday, Dec. 21, as a National Day of Mourning in memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. He is urging all of us to participate in a voluntary moment of silence on Friday at 9:30 AM EST. Will you join me in also pledging to support this important request? To pledge to support the National Day of Mourning and the moment of silence this Friday visit:
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Update #3
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 17, 2012Friends... we just surpassed 1.5 million signatures on the Sandy Hook Elementary School National Sympathy Card, making this the single largest gathering of signatures ever within the Causes community. Remarkable! Please keep inviting your friends to sign as well -- we want to reach at least two million signatures. Tonight Mashable featured the National Sympathy Card story on its homepage. Here's a link to that great story: http://mashable.com/2012/12/17/sandy-hook-causes/.
David
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Update #2
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 17, 2012Friends,
A quick update on the progress of the Sandy Hook Elementary National Sympathy Card. Thanks to your help, we just passed the 1,000,000 mark - in less than 48 hours. Wow! We have reached out to the leaders in Newtown Connecticut to explore the best way to share the card respectfully with the community. More to come on that. Meanwhile we will continue to keep the card open for signatures throughout this week. So please continue to share with friends.
Best wishes,
David
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Update #1
Posted by David Paine (Campaign Leader) on Dec 16, 2012Incredibly, in just 24 hours more than half a million people have already signed the National Sympathy Card for the families of the victims, the survivors and others impacted by the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. We've had over a million shares already on Facebook, and more than 60,000 people have posted personal comments expressing their condolence! It is a remarkable response! Thank you so much for your support thus far! http://tinyurl.com/NationalSympathyCard
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THIS IS JUST ANOTHER TRICK TO GET YOU TO SIGN YOUR RIGHTS AWAY AS A CITIZEN AND GUN OWNER, LEAVE US GOD AND GUN LOVERS ALONE IF YOU DONT LIKE GUNS DONT BUY EM, PERIOD.
THOSE WE LOVEDONT GO AWAY THEY WALK BESIDE US EVERYDAY UNSEEN UNHEARD BUT ALWAYS NEAR STILL LOVED STILL MISSED AND VERY DEAR
I want to express how much I am sadden by this tragedy to a town that seemed to be so close.
By the looks of this coment thread re this petition, it seems the majority (not all) of the people who attack the newly-revived debate over gun responsibility (because of the increasingly reported accidents and tragedies in the media) are simply not educated enough to decipher the difference between what most of the general population means by "gun control" and an "attack on the 2nd amendment." To those who cannot covceive that difference, you should do one or more of the following: 1-go...
…By the looks of this coment thread re this petition, it seems the majority (not all) of the people who attack the newly-revived debate over gun responsibility (because of the increasingly reported accidents and tragedies in the media) are simply not educated enough to decipher the difference between what most of the general population means by "gun control" and an "attack on the 2nd amendment." To those who cannot covceive that difference, you should do one or more of the following: 1-go back to school (seeing as a good many of you also lack basic English grammar skills); 2-go to church or read your Bibles to learn that Jesus valued sympathy over coveting (your guns, I mean); and 3-(if you're really interested in serious discussion and not just esposuing pro-gun rhetoric for the sake of hearing yourself talk or using your Twitter), sit down and have an actual conversation with love in your heart about how to take gun responsibility to the level it needs to be without removing the...
...2nd amendment. Because gun violence (note I said "gun violence" not "guns" or "gun owners") in America is clearly an issue. If you can't see that, only God can help you, whether it be providing you with more intelligence or a deeper heart.
To add, I am not a liberal Yankee. I was born in the midwest, raised in North Carolina, and have shot a gun. It is a powerful feeling, not to mention responsibility, to shoot a gun. A power which many of you have so easily taken for granted while failing to recognize the cost that power has when used inappropriately. To you all that fail to see David Paine's and others' goals with this group, I say GROW UP. This isnt about trying to take away your guns, so stop perverting genuine arguments with cheap shots and GROW UP.
How do I get off this stupid page and unsign this sham of a "sympathy" card?? I support the second amendment and proudly own several guns. (with 'high capacity' clips!)
Julie. That was hot! Well said. That's my kind of girl. Smart. Thanks Julie. Is cool if I copy your comment and put it on my Facebook? Let Me know.
any violence against innocent people is wrong most importantly children. They are the most innocent of everyone. Any American should be honored to sign a petition of this nature.
Many who talk about the Second Amendment really do not know anything about what the Second Amendment really means.
Second amendments never called for assault weapons
Today assault weapons tomorrow grenade launchers.
I will proudly sign and support. I've been surrounded by too many lives lost by gun violence. At the end of the day, i am just looking to try and protect innocent victims. If nothing else, I think we owe people the act of trying. Maybe if people came to a reasonable agreement, my 16yr old nephew would not have been gunned down by a neighborhood gang. Maybe if people could have a realistic discussion about the issue at hand, they would realize these victims are not just statistics, or...
…I will proudly sign and support. I've been surrounded by too many lives lost by gun violence. At the end of the day, i am just looking to try and protect innocent victims. If nothing else, I think we owe people the act of trying. Maybe if people came to a reasonable agreement, my 16yr old nephew would not have been gunned down by a neighborhood gang. Maybe if people could have a realistic discussion about the issue at hand, they would realize these victims are not just statistics, or numbers, but actual people. Then maybe, this petition wouldn't seem so far fetched. Maybe one day. Until then, I will just keep trying.
May God Bless you and keep you and give you His peace. Jesus said in Mt 19:14 "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; of such is the kingdom of heaven." You're in my prayers! Ed
may god bless u always .it is so sad that we are living in this century, where we have this kind of people who are so sick ,who loose the sense of humanity . if we can't give a life, we have no right to take life of innocent people .god give strength to all those families who lost , their loved ones. you will be in my prayers .
i heard some of you are actors, like robbie parker who was laughing his ass off and hyperventilating to look sad for the cameras, moment to moment to moment. is that true?
what do u think?
I will happily sigh a petition which favours control of murder weapons.
The constitution is outdated and needs serious revision.
You are living in 2013 not the1700's.
Times change it is time for change. Guns Kill what else are they for?
I am sure I have already signed this. :)
Gun control isn't about protection but just as it says...CONTROL
There is no CONTROL when all those defenceless teachers & kids get GUNNED down. How many times has this happened? I know what I'm talking about too. I had a really good friend shot by a jealous idiot.Once you shoot to kill in a fit of anger there is no going back, no 'Oops sorry, I was really angry, but I'm not angry now' too late mate.
When a child dies, it is particularly hard for the mother. Thus the Bible acknowledges the bitter grief that a mother can feel. ( 2 Kings 4:27) of course, it is difficult for the bereaved father as well. "O that I might have died, I myself, instead of you." lamented King David when his son Absalom died.- 2 Samuel 18:33.
…Yet, because you have confidence in the resurrection, your sorrow will not be unrelenting. As the Bible says, you will "not sorrow just as the rest also do who have no...
When a child dies, it is particularly hard for the mother. Thus the Bible acknowledges the bitter grief that a mother can feel. ( 2 Kings 4:27) of course, it is difficult for the bereaved father as well. "O that I might have died, I myself, instead of you." lamented King David when his son Absalom died.- 2 Samuel 18:33.
Yet, because you have confidence in the resurrection, your sorrow will not be unrelenting. As the Bible says, you will "not sorrow just as the rest also do who have no hope." ( 1 Thessalonians 4:13 ) Rather, you will draw close to God in prayer, and the Bible promises that "he himself will sustain you."-Psalms 55:22.
God does hold out his hand to those who need comfort and believe in the ransom sacrifice of his only son Jesus Christ.
He knows your pain and wants to give you comfort in his words the Bible, which he gave us all for our instruction to follow his words and to draw close to him and he will also draw close to us.
Now more than ever, turn to Jehovah God
when the sleeper cells wake up you're gonna wish you had an assault rifle with high capacity clips you stupid morons!
something needs to be done,guns are a danger how many more has to die.sad.
To the many people above who appear support the idea that any American can own and keep any type of weapon whether or not they have a criminal or mental background I say you are nuts ! The sooneer you sign off this site (and not a petition) the better.
First, my prayers go out to Boston. One another note, since 9/11, anyone remember that event?? Okay many terrorist cells are still living in the US. Homeland Security is out numbered. Also, everybody was focused on North Korea, leaving the US wide open for a strike. When will it end? Someone asked, until their " god " tells them to stop. They have brain washed with the wrong version of the Koran, and took it to a dark place.
…I saw a picture of woman soldier hugging her daughter. Someone...
First, my prayers go out to Boston. One another note, since 9/11, anyone remember that event?? Okay many terrorist cells are still living in the US. Homeland Security is out numbered. Also, everybody was focused on North Korea, leaving the US wide open for a strike. When will it end? Someone asked, until their " god " tells them to stop. They have brain washed with the wrong version of the Koran, and took it to a dark place.
I saw a picture of woman soldier hugging her daughter. Someone wrote underneath, " I wonder if she feels guilty for killing other children and women." My defense to that, as ordered, do not fire, unless fired upon, if they use their own as shields, we are forced. When will it end? I pray soon! GOOD BLESS AMERICA
My Prayers and thoughts are with the wounded and the families who tragically lost loved ones in this terrible barbaric act.