CBS/AP/ December 20, 2012, 11:07 AM

Tragic moments of 2012

A woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher, following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Friday, Dec. 14, 2012.

/ AP/Jessica Hill

For too many U.S. communities, 2012 will be remembered for tragedy and heartbreak, from senseless shootings to a massive natural disaster. Here is a look back at some of the tragedies of 2012.

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SuluSea says:
A five round revolver for her and a 12 gauge shotgun for him to secure their premises as well their neighbors. And huge gun locker is all the
2nd amendment right should bear defense weapons at home. And an million
of Bodily Insurance coverage should go with it. If some family members
when shooting rampage and those who survive will compensated. When death resulted from the said gun. The responsible owner should face the charges
for their negligence for landing the weapons at the wrong hands. They should bear the responsility as well the bear arms in the name of the 2nd
amendments right declations. The Hue and Cry of the Scottish before the
Police service was known and so the Cry of the NRA members too. Register
all guns and held the owner responsible to be fair. Pay the Tax/Insurance
and the annual registration.
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flows0002 says:
The United States of America is founded on laws, rights and declarations. As an American you should do your best to uphold these. Everyone in Public Office including soldiers are public servants and are required to uphold these laws. This is what I think the framers of the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution meant. "Every American citizen has a right to defend themselves from tyranny, loss of life, loss of liberty, loss of freedom, to protect The United States of America from foreign aggression, using whatever means they deem necessary." The right to bear arms is simply a description, but it NOT limited to arms.
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SuluSea replies:
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While we understand the 2nd Amendment Rights granted to us...But our forefathers never realized the changing world we'in these days. Gun violence are everywhere. We kept ourselves mum for awhile. When tragedies transpired. And we withness the carnaged. Not just us the Proud American Gun Lovers. After awhile we always
invoked our rights. When some responsible law makers initiates
some reform. We blatantly despised them and gather some bravados
with an assault rifle in a rally. From his look. I can assumed he
never gone to combat. Walking the muddy 10 lbs muddy boots in a hilly jungle.Where mosquitoes is your neighbors and cobra's are
guide.If some of these guys really loves guns.Let them join the
Army and enjoys the m60s themselves free. And for those ex-service member or veteran. They can help keep their assault rifle
in the National Guard armory. And have them fire their assign gun
quarterly. Like the Singaporean and Taiwanese. All their bravados
never carry theirs assault rifles outside the Reservist Brigade.
We should set an example to our youngones.Let's aside the profits
instead. We save our innocent people who are being gun down by a legal or illegal deadly weapons.We need a change...Before it struck someone dear to each of us. Those handsome guys who wanted
to run a show and make believe. I salute each of you..who happened to rescued some children under the hail of fire from M16
rifle. It's a nightmare to relive the event and helpless when no
cares. God bless America for their leaders and people.
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samspade99999 says:
What's the matter with this guy couldn't he get a gun like everybody else?
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ranger2930 says:
My CBS how stupid you sound regurgitating your Fox
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bob_scofield says:
What do you gun geeks see when you look at yourselves in the mirror holding your little assault weapons? Do you see Rambo? Well you're not. You're Adam Lanza. You're terrified little cowards. Each of you are infinitely more likely to have a psychotic episode, or just a bad day, and walk into a mall or school and mow down innocent unarmed people then you are of picking up your AR-15 and fending off the 82nd Airborne Division should your paranoid fantasy that the U.S. government is going to have them parachute into your hometown come true. Seriously, get rid of the guns, grow some cajones, get out of your basement bunkers, and go lead your lives. Have any of you ever even kissed a girl? I assure you it's more fun than hanging out it in the woods with a bunch of dudes firing rounds at paper targets.

Oh yeah, and instead of posting comments on CBS News' website, why not actually start getting your news from them? In other words, stop getting all your information from Fox News. Everything they say is designed not to inform you, but to terrify you. And apparently it's worked. You really think Barack Obama is going to kill you? Why? Because they told you? Because his name is funny? Because his grandfather was a Muslim and his father was an atheist? Because his skin is darker than yours?

Let me in on a little secret. Barack Obama loves you. He literally KILLS PEOPLE ALMOST EVERY DAY TO PROTECT YOU. He uses drones to kill terrorists, and some people he just thinks MIGHT be terrorists, with no regard to the lives of foreign innocent civilians that are standing around them, just to save your worthless lives. He's probably breaking international and U.S. law to do it, but he doesn't care. That's how much he loves you. And he uses drones instead of troops because he doesn't want to put the troops at risk, because he loves them too. And I'm sure it breaks his heart and he dies inside a little every time innocent men, women and children are killed in these strikes, but he does it so that you might live and be free to complain about him on the Internet, you ungrateful sacks of crap.
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nosnhojde replies:
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shut up scofield
truth4u2no replies:
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you are a moron.......
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TimeToRetire says:
Then 2013 starts off with the worst massacre in the nation's history, Alabama over Notre Dame 42-14.
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JohnKrats replies:
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Nice. Typical foot ball moron. Try soccer for 90 minutes.
MASTERMARINER21 replies:
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Look to idiots arguing about sports on a guns article. Welcome to America!
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The_Wizzo says:
What about the mall shooting last month in Oregon? Helloooo?!!
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rrozsa replies:
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We won't hear much about that shooting. Because of the fact that there was an armed man present, which prevented further deaths, there was not enough carnage to make a huge splash in the news. That's the problem I have with a lot of the statistics the anti-gun advocates use -- there's no way to compare the number of lives saved due to an armed bystander with the number of lives taken by a nut in an Elementary school where no one is armed. We don't know how many more would have died if the gunman had not seen the man's gun pointed at him.
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mycbsusername says:
Also - please stop showing the picture of Victorias sister. I am sure that every time this is posted it is ripping the scab off of her wound.
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jaimieandlis replies:
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whoever took this picture will probably get a Pulitzer. I think you're going to be seeing a lot more of it in the years to come. FYI when you discuss complete strangers in the first person you make yourself look like a professional mourner....
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ChadTeetzen says:
CBS, We do not need this picture to understand that people are upset when their friends and loved ones die. Please replace this picture with a picture of a casket or the school or something. This picture is completely unnecessary and add's nothing to the story. To use the words fro your fun little caption up there, this picture is "senseless". Please stop making a circus out of other people suffering. You're very shameless and disrespectful.

This isn't an advertisement for a Big Mac or something, that's a real person up there with a real problem and I doubt she wants to share her problem with 250,000,000 weirdo's.
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joesapper replies:
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Such events needs to be before the court of the general public , so if you wish to restrict the people from the open media , than you are suggesting a monitored media restrcted by the Gov , perhaps you should move to Iran or North Korea .
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ChadTeetzen says:
CBS, We do not need this picture to understand that people are upset when their friends and loved ones die. Please replace this picture with a picture of a casket or the school or something. This picture is completely unnecessary and add's nothing to the story. To use the words fro your fun little caption up there, this picture is "senseless". Please stop making a circus out of other people suffering. You're very shameless and disrespectful.
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