Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Newtown speaks

Danbury news-Times, Jan 30 and Jan 31, 2013 Newtown hearings. Warning: emotionally raw

NY Times:

NEWTOWN, Conn. ' In riveting testimony repeatedly interrupted by standing ovations, parents, public officials, law enforcement officers and school employees issued a full-throated call on Wednesday night for strengthening the nation's gun laws in the wake of the massacre of 26 children and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December.

WaPo has an op-ed written by Sandy Hook parents Mark and Jackie Barden:

We have joined with other families, neighbors and friends in making the Sandy Hook Promise (www.sandyhookpromise.org). We hope every member of Congress and Americans nationwide will join us in pledging to honor the lives lost last month by coming together to end these violent tragedies...

Our son's future was stolen from him: There will be no firehouse, no more rock band, no Boston Marathon.

But if our nation uses this moment to make the future brighter for other children, Daniel's life and the lives of his classmates and educators will have meaning for years to come.

Our nation's ability to deal with gun violence is limited only by the civility of our discourse, the scope of our ambitions and ' as Daniel would have done ' our willingness to come together and take action.

Hint: if the moderator of a public meeting says you will be cleared from room if you don't shut up, you are heckling
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More on the Senate gun violence hearings and other topics below the fold...