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The first concrete responses to the massacre in Newtown, Conn., began emerging on Tuesday, as state leaders proposed measures to curb gun violence, corporations distanced themselves from an event that has traumatized the nation and the White House pointed to gun control measures that President Obama would champion in the months ahead.

Peter Lanza, Adam Lanza's father, as quoted in "A Mother, a Gun Enthusiast and the First Victim" by Matt Flegenheimer and Ravi Somaiya in The New York Times (15 December 2012).

We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can.

Anderson Cooper, in Anderson Cooper 360° (17 December 2012).

We tried to be careful and respectful of what the families here are going through, and we will continue to do that.

We have avoided focusing on the killer, because he is gone, and, frankly, we don't want him to be remembered, certainly not by name.

One thing that we have been doing here is really trying to keep our focus on the lives lost and the lives of the people here who died led, the heroes who saved lives, who stopped even more bloodshed, and often put themselves in harm's way to do it, the teachers and the school administrators.

But there are families in Connecticut who cannot do that tonight, and they need all of us right now. This evening, Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter, and we’ll tell them that we love them, and we’ll remind each other how deeply we love one another. And the supreme court, which has yet to have its say on this issue, may decide that the federal immunity shield does cover such cases.We’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. Last week’s payout may have had more to do with Remington’s effort to re-emerge from bankruptcy than “a new-found willingness among gunmakers to settle claims”. Since many states have unfair-trade-practices laws like Connecticut’s, it’s likely that gun-violence victims will bring similar cases elsewhere, said Timothy D. One advert for the Bushmaster carried the tagline, “Consider your man card reissued” another included the phrase, “Forces of opposition, bow down.

They said it had marketed its semi-automatic rifles in a way that encouraged illegal use by enticing troubled young men. But they got round that by arguing that Remington – which agreed to release thousands of pages of internal documents about its marketing strategy as part of the settlement – had violated Connecticut’s consumer law. They were told their case was unwinnable owing to the 2005 federal law that grants gunmakers sweeping immunity from civil liability. It’s believed to be the largest payout by a gun manufacturer in a mass shooting case.Īmerica owes these families a great debt, said E.J. Last week, they settled a lawsuit for $73m against Remington, which made the AR-15-style Bushmaster rifle used in the massacre. His vow yielded little legislative action, but the families of the Sandy Hook victims have now achieved some accountability through the courts. President Obama gave a powerful speech at a memorial, in which he promised to curb the spread of firearms.

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