http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/newtown.asp
Thanks for the link......Interesting read for sure....Maybe lgm270 and SharonAnne can read it and offer commentary?
No pic of the gun(s) used.
No interviews with any of several surviving eye witnesses who are identified in the aftermath of the event, but some how just disappeared and were never heard from again. Instead, we get interviews and statements from people were not there and are reading scripts prepared by others.
No explanation for a medical examiner who says all victims were shot by the same .22 cal rifle, but can't identify the bullets as .22cal.
There's another aspect: The early accounts related about how two teachers in their class rooms "jumped" between the gunman and the children on whom he was opening fire. The sources for these incredible statements are family members of the deceased teachers NONE OF WHOM WAS PRESENT. These statements were made on Dec. 15, 2012, within 24 hours of the event. HOW DO THESE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN A CLASS ROOM IN WHICH EVERY SINGLE PERSON WAS KILLED? All of the persons who would have knowledge of whether these teachers "jumped" are dead!
It is impossible to determine if the teachers "jumped" immediately before being shot. There is no way this can be ascertained from post mortem examinations, either at the scene or by the medical examiner. Only eye witnesses or video could possibly establish the truth of this "human shield" baloney that is now an article of faith of this event.
The position of the teachers before they were shot can be reasonably determined from the position of them in death, the wounds, whether or not bullets passed through them and into children behind them, etc. But it is impossible to determine if they "Jumped" before being shot, whether they "jumped" in front of the children or jumped away from the children to save themselves.
Here is a link to a December 16, 2012 story in the NY Post.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local /heroic_teachers_made_the_ultimate_yUlKFrK5Xq0l0bA3CMl65I
If you read the full story, you will see that it is nonsense. There is not a single fact that supports the "human shield" version of this incident.
Notice this NY Post story references Natalie Hammond, an eye witness who was shot at point blank range by the shooter, was wounded in the hand, foot and leg, yet was able to escape and who, as of December 15, 2012, was "recovering" from these non-life threatening injuries. A funny thing about this eye witness, who purportedly saw the shooter. SHE HAS DISAPPEARED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND HAS NOT BEEN INTERVIEWED BY ANYONE. This is bogus. If this woman were for real, she would be wheeled up to congress and before every television network in the country complete with her wheel chair and her tearful, heart rending story about "the children," her own encounter with the shooter and a description of what happened. The fact that she has disappeared shows there is something phoney about the whole thing.
Another eye witness who has disappeared off the face of the earth is the "custodian" who was running down the hallways "sounding the alarm." There are other stories which state that this as yet unnamed, unidentified man confronted the shooter and demanded that he "Put the gun down! Put the gun down!" This is a second eye witness who could describe the shooter, the weapons, and possibly various crimes. This "custodian" also referenced as a "janitor" has never been interviewed, never appeared on TV (tearfully pleading for the "children") and has just dropped off the face of the earth for all practical purposes.
If the conformist, official version of this event were true, these eye witnesses would be on the front page of every newspaper and on every network, weeping and wailing about "the children" and leading the charge for banning guns. Yet, they have both disappeared.
The 96% death rate, the highest in the history of mass shootings, is ignored. To date, the worst mass shooting was Virginia Tech in 2007, where 1 shooter shot 47 people killing 32 (68%) and wounding 17 (32%). In 2006, a single shooter using a 30-06, 12 Ga. and 9mm pistol at an Amish school shot 10 girls, ages 6-13 and only achieved a 50% fatality rate: 5 died, 5 survived. Sandy Hook is the first mass shooting in history to get a 96% rate, with only one wounded person (aforementioned Natalie Hammond) surviving. The fact that this shooting was so far outside the statistical norm of mass shootings has not been commented upon anywhere, but it was most certainly noted by cops and FBI whose business is to know this stuff.
We are not being told the truth about this event, which, at some level, is most certainly a hoax. No pics of the guns. Eye witnesses just fade away. So much of it, such as the "human shield" nonsense, is not only unsubstantiated but is not capable of being substantiated because all of the witnesses to it were dead.
Much of the "coverage" is just melodramatic and political narrative. It does not even qualify as journalism but as screenwriting. I strongly suspect many of these stories were created by the intelligence community to be planted in media. This has been going on for decades. The CIA had guys churning out book reviews and other stories designed to "de bunk" non-conformist critics of the Warren Commission Report on the JFK assassination and to promulgate talking points that were planted in the main stream media.
Now we're told it will be a year before the "report" is completed. What utter nonsense!! The morons who elected Obama (and George W. as well) have short attention spans and the goal is not to report this incident truthfully, but to create propaganda to support sweeping gun bans. The disarmament of American civilians is more important to the ruling class' conquest of this country than any thing else at the moment.
