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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.
Thank u for sharing yhe most wonderful thought with me! I Love u all qwith all my heart
The fact of the matter is there's a lot of Americans who also 'love God' and guns, and misuse their ownership of guns in situations such as this. If you love God so much, you wouldn't believe that owning a weapon capable of harming someone so severely is right. What would Jesus do?
GUNS DO NOT KILL - PEOPLE DO!!! PRAY TO GOD TO SAVE THE
PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS INTENT TO KILL OTHERS!!!
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.
MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH EVERYONE!!!!!! MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS EACH AND EVERYONE THAT WAS AFFECTED BY THIS HORRIBLE ACT.
We all were affected one way or another. God give us the strength and wisdom to do what you would have us to do. Watch over our children where ever they may be. Thank you Heavenly Father for sending your little Angels to us. No matter how insignificant the issues are or how great the pain people people need to fall on their knees and ask for your guidance and healing.
When I saw this tragic news on the Today Show, I cried, I cried for the families, their little ones taken abruptly away and the teachers who lost their lives that day trying to protect their little ones there, they are Heroes. My deepest condolences to the all the families that lost their the ones they loved most. May God be with you all and let Him bring you peace. They are with their Daddy now and He is loving them with all that He is.
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 .
We will never forget you. Your children will Always be in our hearts and prayers.
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.
I do have sympathy for those who lost loved ones. But I believe in the 2nd amendment and do not believe with the gun rules that it will stop murder. Those who want to kill...will always get guns, and not in a legal way. They start making certain rules/regulations as step one....and sooner or later they take all your guns. Then only the criminals will have guns. You really have had to lose your common sense not to see this coming. People kill others with knives, bombs, etc....and you don't...
…I do have sympathy for those who lost loved ones. But I believe in the 2nd amendment and do not believe with the gun rules that it will stop murder. Those who want to kill...will always get guns, and not in a legal way. They start making certain rules/regulations as step one....and sooner or later they take all your guns. Then only the criminals will have guns. You really have had to lose your common sense not to see this coming. People kill others with knives, bombs, etc....and you don't see the knife, the bomb etc..getting blamed. Any person with a pea brain knows it is not the item used...but it is the person behind the item. They can do all the back ground checks, limit ammo, etc....and it won't change truth. It will only hurt those who use it for protection.
I continue to pray nightly for the 20 lost angels and the 6 teachers. May God Bless all that were left behind but will be reunited one day with your loved ones.
I hear America crying. So ashamed...
My prayers go to the families send the Sandy Hook school. I personally have been affected by gun violence.
I would NEVER sign anything that has any kind of gun reform in it, unless the change will make it easier to buy and own a gun. Like most of the people I know, I have never been in any trouble. However my husband and a few of my friends have felonies. I would rather every single friend that has been in trouble own a gun than several of these people who have no record at all. You all are so happy about this new debate, retards.... If a criminal is going to break the law of owning a gun, they...
…I would NEVER sign anything that has any kind of gun reform in it, unless the change will make it easier to buy and own a gun. Like most of the people I know, I have never been in any trouble. However my husband and a few of my friends have felonies. I would rather every single friend that has been in trouble own a gun than several of these people who have no record at all. You all are so happy about this new debate, retards.... If a criminal is going to break the law of owning a gun, they aren't going to Bass Pro or any other store to buy it.They are going to a 'private party or neighbor' and regardless of how many millions of laws, regulations, rules, restrictions, and other b*llsh*t you add on, they will be able to get any kind of gun they want before I could. Reduce the restrictions on gun laws so I can be able to purchase and own a gun to protect my family and property more easily. If someone is going to commit a crime no "rule or law" is going to stop that.. see def : criminal
I am not a felon, nor have I ever been in any trouble at all! I did not say the people I knew with felonies had guns either! I was saying I would feel safer with those people having guns rather than some of the people I know that don't have felonies. Not everyone has made a mistake in the past will do something bad again. To that effect, Some people that I've never been in trouble might commit a crime. This is obviously a clear case of a liberal Twisting another person's words. Learn to read and not change the story!
Sharri your reply says it all. You and your kind should never be let near any weapon. It seems that not only are you the type that would shoot first and ask questions later you are also likely to shoot yourself or a member of your family or friend. One day someone will say or do something you don't like and the first thing you will think of is gun. You are an imbecile and no I don't own a gun!!