Saturday, December 22, 2012
Local gun enthusiasts, sportsmen and collectors rush to recently opened Bill's Gun Shop & Range to purchase firearms in fear of new weapon ban legislation in the wake of the Newtown school shooting.
Over the past week, business has been quite literally booming at Bill's Gun Shop & Range. Amid the muffled bangs and snaps of the indoor shooting range behind bulletproof glass, customers lined up three deep at cash registers Wednesday afternoon and busily browsed the sales floor of the new shop. Staff members had their hands full answering customer questions, completing transactions and trying to keep inventory on their walls. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT, on Dec. 21, and the subsequent calls for firearm bans, has prompted gun and shooting sport enthusiasts to buy now while the products are still legal. "There is a buying/collecting frenzy taking place in the last five days," store owner John Monson said on …
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Patch will pause to remember the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Patch websites in the Twin Cities area will go dark for a moment Friday morning to honor the memory of those killed one week ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. The brief Patch blackout is set for 8:30 a.m. CST on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Both Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker have called for a moment of silence in their respective states one hour later, at 9:30 a.m. CST. In his statement (click on PDF thumbnail), Walker also asked places of worship and government buildings that have bells to ring them 26 times "in honor of each of the lives that were lost." Twenty children and six adults died in the mass shooting. Newtown Patch's news hub has extensive coverage of the events of Dec. 14 and since, …
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Hudson Patch users chimed in on Facebook about what they said to their kids about Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Now we want to know what you said to your kids.
Since Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, parents around the country have had to face the difficult task of telling their children about the evil act, answer their questions and comfort them. COVERAGE FROM NEWTOWN PATCH The Hudson School District has posted some tips for "Supporting Children and Youth Following a Crisis Event" on its homepage. The page includes tips about "Talking to Children About Violence: Tips for Parents & Teachers," "Tips for Supporting Children & Youth After a Crisis Event" and "Managing Strong Emotional Reactions to Traumatic Events." In addition, the district issued the following statement: The staff of the Hudson School District is heartbroken for the Newtown, Connecticut …
Renee
8:58 am on Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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