Was watching TV and the locals news anchors interrupted with a special report. Sad day.

My next-door neighbor teaches at the Newtown middle school. I'm really close to Danbury Hospital. As I'm sure you remember, it was so very, very sad around here that Christmas.

And, yes. Very sad.

When I heard the first reports. It was still unknown what exactly was going on. I pulled into a gas station, parked and cried my eyes out. Stayed there listening for a couple hours before I could drive again.

It's still unbelievable. There are no words.

announced that an elementary school was under a lockout not that far away as somebody had taken children as hostages. There were talks of shoots at the school, and as usual in our 24/7 news cycle, a lot of news that turned out not to be true.

When we reached home, unfortunately, the radio was starting to have an idea of the extent of the tragedy.

subway (outdoors) in NYC. I learned about it while looking at DU on the phone.

I don't keep the news on if the radio or TV is playing, and I probably only learned about it whenever I next logged on to DU.

That might have been a day or two after the event.

Being on the west coast, it wouldn't have been huge news unless I was following one of those news sources that latches on to a story and stays with it for a week, like CNN did with the Malaysia Air disappearance.

It's not at all like the JFK assassination or 9-11 to me.

Those that say they do not remember do not want to...too much focus on the gun and the unimaginable massacre of innocents and the close relationship....better to forget for some.

Spent the next couple of hours getting a crown.

the site of Australia's most infamous gun crime scene.

My cousins, who live in Melbourne, were agog at the news.
"Surely" they said, "This will bring about anti-gun laws in the US now."

I told them that it would blow over in less than a month, and that no
new legislation would follow.

I hate being right.

and browsing the web while the kids were out of the room.