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Nelba Marquez Greene, mother of Ana, third from left, and Nicole Hockley, mother of Dylan, fourth from left, read the Sandy Hook Promise surrounded by other families of victims of the December 14 tragedy at the launch of Sandy Hook Promise in Newtown, CT. The group urged supporters to make the promise at sandyhookpromise.org to turn this tragedy into transformation. (PRNewsFoto/Sandy Hook Promise)

Newtown residents speaking out on gun control

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- David Connors, the father of 8-year-old triplets who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, has listened attentively to all sides of the debate in Washington about regulating guns in American society. But among those closest to the killing at his children’s school, he says, there is a singular view emerging, he said.

“Things are really raw here,” said Connors, a 40-year-old engineer. “The attitude towards the issue of guns here is probably more slanted towards ‘We don’t want to see them — and we don’t want them anywhere near our kids.’ “

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U.N. wants its own fleet of drones

UNITED NATIONS _The United Nations, looking to modernize its peacekeeping operations, is planning for the first time to deploy a fleet of its own surveillance drones in missions in Central and West Africa.

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