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24) Children who were interviewed consistently said that the gunfire sounded like the janitor knocking down tables. There is quite a difference between the sound of a cafeteria table being unfolded and the shot of a rifle.
As already pointed out in this thread, this is simply a "frame of reference" issue. Most children and many adults have never heard a rifle's report. Why would a child NOT compare it to something with which s/he is familiar? Of all the points, this one seems to want to "read" something into even the smallest detail. Wouldn't it be MORE suspicious if children that young were very familiar with how real guns sound when being fired?
25) Parents of the victims behaved in a very strange manner after their children's deaths. Emilie Parker's father gave an interview the following day (Saturday), and Noah Pozner's mother got a tattoo in her son's memory. On Sunday, Grace and Christopher McDonnell appeared on the Anderson Cooper show. Anyone who loses a family member (even an elderly one who has been sick for a long time, let alone a six-year-old who dies suddenly and tragically) knows that the days immediately following the death are extremely hectic. Having to make funeral arrangements, preparing for distant relative to fly in from other parts of the country, and even having a few minutes to grieve your loss in private doesn't leave much time to be going down to New York City and having a CNN interview.
This is incredibly unfair and unjustified. First, people grieve in their own way. It is a very personal (and usually private) journey in which we all must come to terms with the loss of our loved ones. Some people go to the cemetary every day. Some people leave their loved one's belonging exactly like they were at the time of their passing. Some people have a celebration of their loved one's life and rejoice in the fond memories. There is no one *right* way to grieve, so to point a finger at how someone else chooses to walk THEIR journey is incredibly judgmental.
Beyond that, the families of the victims at Sandy Hook were being hounded by the media. All of them surely knew the "window of opportunity" to have their voice/s heard would be short-lived. Just because one parent chose to take advantage of that opportunity and grant an intervew to CNN does not make him less broken-hearted than the parents that did not participate in televised interviews.
26) It seems as if all the victims' parents arrived at the school in casual attire. Newtown is an affluent city, where you would expect the parents to be at work when they were notified of the incident. Yet none of them showed up in suits and ties. They looked like they had been spending a Saturday afternoon at home eating Doritos.
Again, this is just incredibly judgemental. For one, nobody knows what these parents were doing prior to hearing the news via emergency broadcast. Surely, ALL of them don't work in high power positions required tailored dress wear every day. Secondly, if there was a giant plot by whomever to stage all this, wouldn't the people actually look MORE glamorous? They looked like the average parents in any town in any state anywhere. What is wrong with that? Even affluent people don't "dress to the nines" all the time.
27) Only around half of the victims were born in Connecticut. A disproportionate number were transplants from other states who had moved to "New-town" immediately prior to their deaths.
Why is this an issue? Many places deemed "good places to raise a family" have a high number of "transplants." Where should they go to school? Isn't the whole point of moving to a new area to integrate with the existing communities?
28) The ages of the parents interviewed don't seem to be typical of those of a six-year-old. Many of them were in their mid- to late 40's, or 50 altogether.
Countless studies and articles have been pointing out that people are waiting longer to get married and/or raise a family. Older parents are not uncommon at all. Add to that the earlier fact that this is an affluent area and, therefore, statiscally the residents are more likely to have the means for IVF, surrogacy and/or adoption to bring children into their lives regardless of the age of the parents.
29) All the victims were first graders, so, under Connecticut law, they should have all been born in 2006; in Connecticut public schools, children enter kindergarten in September of the calendar year in which they have their fifth birthday. Yet, four of the victims (Daniel Barden, Chase Kowalski, Grace McDonnell and Josephine Gay) were born in 2005. It's possible that they could have been held back a year for learning disabilities, but none of their parents claim this was the case; although Josephine Gay's mother stated that her daughter had a learning disability, there is no mention of her having started school late due to it.
Parent/Guardians have been lying about their kids' birth dates since the beginning of time. Everybody doesn't have a birthday that falls before the cutoff date designated by various school districts.
30) There is no record of the individual who cleaned up the blood left behind in the school. The large quantity of blood that was shed (or any quantity, for that matter) would pose a biohazard risk due to the possible presence of HIV.
This statement just seems like a scare tactic. There are procedures in place for crime clean-up once the police are done processing the scene. Just because the authorities have not released the name of the HazMat company involved in cleaning the area does not mean it does not exist or the murders did not take place. It makes sense not to release that information when the grieving family members haven't even been allowed to grieve in peace. What kind of backlash do you think would happen to anybody working on that clean-up crew?
One does not need the authority to pronounce someone dead. They just need to know that someone is dead. There are many news stories that clearly show that protocol is not always followed.
And in the case of this item, it was probably horrifically obvious that they were dead. No "pronouncement" needed.
Remember when Princess Diana was killed--what all the witnesses said about Dodi? They all said something to the effect that they looked in the backseat and saw that he was dead. Nobody said they checked his pulse or even touched him or did anything at all to determine if he was really dead. Obviously, the condition of his body was such that there was no question on sight that he could not be alive. It sounds as if it was the same situation with these children.
This statement just seems like a scare tactic. There are procedures in place for crime clean-up once the police are done processing the scene. Just because the authorities have not released the name of the HazMat company involved in cleaning the area does not mean it does not exist or the murders did not take place. It makes sense not to release that information when the grieving family members haven't even been allowed to grieve in peace. What kind of backlash do you think would happen to anybody working on that clean-up crew?
Al Barbarotta, owner of AFB construction, says instantly on Saturday that his company brought cleaning crews and moving crews in the School. Seems very strange they let Joe Blow and crew into a crime scene.
Al Barbarotta, owner of AFB construction, says instantly on Saturday that his company brought cleaning crews and moving crews in the School. Seems very strange they let Joe Blow and crew into a crime scene.
AFB is a very large, well-known business in this area. Hardly a "Joe Blow and crew" operation. All you had to do was Google them to find that out. From their website description: "AFB's only business is Municipal/BOE Facilities Management; Experts in Facilities Construction - Energy Management; Currently managing: Over 1,000 Union Employees in CT; Responsible for over $4.1 Billion dollars in municipal assets and $15,000,000 in contracted services in 6 CT municipalities, managing over 300 Public schools and city buildings."
Well, I guess this is another "unanswered question" that was easily answered. Seriously, the so-called "school shooting expert" that the OP got his questions from did 10 months of research? What a joke!
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