In a response to
a deadly shooting at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, White House
Press Secretary Jay Carney said today is not the day for a debate on gun
control.
"I think it's important, on a day like today, to view this -- as I know the president, as a father, does, and I as a father and others who are parents certainly do, which is to feel enormous sympathy for families that are affected and to do everything we can to support state and local law enforcement and support those who are enduring what appears to be a very tragic event," Carney told reporters in the daily White House press briefing.
"There is, I am
sure -- will be, rather -- a day for discussion of the usual Washington policy
debates, but I do not think today is that day," he said.
The White House
also confirmed that the president spoke with FBI Director Robert Mueller, as
well as Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy to extend his concern and condolences.
"I would rather not relay reactions at this point, because I don't have any confirmation to give to you about what exactly has happened there, or potential victims," Carney said, adding that the FBI is assisting both state and local law enforcement officials in Connecticut with response and investigation efforts. Huffington Post
President Barack
Obama said, "I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation,
and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate." The
Washington Post Obama added that
the country has had "too many of these tragedies in the last few years. The
Washington Post Connecticut Gov.
Dannel Malloy called the mass shooting "a tragedy of unspeakable terms."
CNN "Earlier today a
tragedy of unspeakable terms played itself out in this community," Malloy said,
adding that "you can never be prepared for this kind of incident.
CNN "A number of our
citizens, beautiful children, had their life taken away from them as well as
adults whose responsibility it was to educate and supervise those children,"
Malloy said. CNN “No words can
console the parents of the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School or
describe the pain and shock of such an unspeakable tragedy," House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement. Huffington Post A gunman opened
fire at a Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked, killing 26
people, including 20 children, law-enforcement officials with knowledge of the
matter said. The shooter was found dead inside the school and another person was
found dead elsewhere in Newtown, putting the total toll at 28.
WSJ A
law-enforcement official identified the suspected shooter as 24-year-old Ryan
Lanza. The official said his mother was a teacher at the school, and she was
believed to be among the victims. WSJ School-safety
experts said the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary could be the worst mass
shooting in a U.S. elementary or high school. The death toll so far exceeds the
death at Columbine High School in 1999, which left 12 students and one teacher
dead at the hands of two fellow students, who also took their own lives.
WSJ In 2007, 33
people including the gunmen were shot and killed on the campus of Virginia Tech
in Blacksburg, Va. WSJ
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