In the days, weeks, months, and several years after 9/11, the response was somewhat different inside and outside of NYC. Those on the outside, those who had never set foot in Manhattan were sometimes the loudest to proclaim what we as a nation should or shouldn't do in response. Those who live and work in the city just wanted to get back to normal, and not pick at the scab from the wound torn on that horrible day.
On year ago tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the shooting that shook the nation. On Dec 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Most of those were children. The nation recoiled in horror and tried to take a long look at itself in the mirror. Tried, I say, because those who think guns are more important to our nation than our children fogged up that mirror with 2nd Amendment rhetoric. This time, we were promised, something would get done. One year later, only a few states have moved towards common-sense gun regulation. At the federal level - bupkis.
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