Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Quiet town wonders, 'How can we be protected'? | Synopsis

Quiet town wonders, 'How can we be protected'?

Catholic Church, Flatbush, Brooklyn, ca. 1872-1887.
Catholic Church, Flatbush, Brooklyn, ca. 1872-1887. by Brooklyn Museum
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Residents of Newtown, Conn. , embrace outside St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church prior to a vigil for victims of Friday's massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School -- the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. By Miranda Leitsinger and John Schoen, NBC NewsNEWTOWN, Conn. – Unexpected and unwelcome, gun violence tore through this hilly, wooded New England town on Friday, claiming more than two-dozen lives – many of them just beginning -- and shaking what one resident called a “small lovely village” to its core. Follow @NBCNewsUS “How can we be protected from people like this? ” Jack DeFumeri wondered out loud, saying he moved to Newtown -- founded in 1711 -- years ago from much-larger Danbury because he wanted to raise his three daughters in a safe environment. “I don’t know anymore,” he said before entering a vigil Friday night at St.

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Jack DeFumeri

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0.144573“How can we be protected from people like this?” Jack DeFumeri wondered ...
0“I don’t know anymore,” he said ...
-0.284128“I don’t know anymore,” he said before entering a vigil Friday night at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, as the church's bell's tolled from above. “You take precautions, but how can you see this coming?”  I can’t imagine what the parents are going through, especially this time of year.”
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Miranda Leitsinger

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John Schoen

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TelevisionStation: NBC News

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Facility: Sandy Hook Elementary School

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StateOrCounty: Conn.

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Organization: Lima Roman Catholic Church

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