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Monday, December 17, 2012

Opinion: Montclair Mayor Should Stand with Coalition Against Guns

Resident Melina Macall writes a letter in response to the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., calling for Montclair to join Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

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  To the Editor,  As a parent and citizen I am doing everything in my power to reduce the number of guns on the streets. I was deeply disappointed to note that Montclair Mayor Robert Jackson is not part of the coalition of Mayors nationwide supporting effective gun laws.  Mayors Against Illegal Guns is a bipartisan coalition of more than 725 mayors –representing 57 million Americans – who support common-sense gun laws. I ask you to join this coalition as a priority and to share this information with our town so that we citizens can come out behind you and speak up for stronger gun control. For every day that nothing changes, 34 people are murdered by gunshot. Melina Macall Montclair

thewayitis

9:06 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Melina, have you received a reply? I sent a letter to the mayor via email on Tuesday. Haven't heard back. Would the editor at Patch be able to follow up on this with Mayor Jackson? To ask if he intends to join Mayors Against Illegal Guns? Thank you.   more ›

Friday, December 14, 2012

'It Wasn't Me' Hoboken Man Named as Shooter Writes

A Connecticut town once voted the safest place to live in America experiences horrific violence in one of its elementary schools.

The man identified in media reports Friday as the shooter in the second deadliest school shooting in American history has told friends that he thinks his developmentally disabled brother may have committed the crime, Patch has learned. A close friend of Ryan Lanza who requested to not be identified told Patch that he spoke to Lanza as he was making his way home from work to Hoboken. Lanza also took to his Facebook page to rail against CNN naming him as the suspect in the shooting in Newtown, Conn.  “I’m on the bus home now, it wasn’t me,” Lanza wrote. Lanza’s mother, Nancy, a school teacher, is believed to be among the dead. More than 25 people, including 18 students, died in the mass shooting. The shooter was Adam Lanza, 20, the younger …

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Police Hope to ID Victims, Shooter in Newtown Killings Saturday (in Newtown Patch) and Sandy Hook School (in Newtown Patch)

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John Santaella

7:10 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012

If that was an automatic weapon it would have gone through that ammunition in less than a minute.   more ›

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