I hope when president obama bans all these high capacity ammo and automatic assault rifles they name for the bill after this brave teacher, and after that our schools will be much safer.

She was a true hero trying to help the children when she could have easily ran and saved herself. No greater love than a man would lay down his life for a friend. Sorry Barry but they will be no safer. To even think that would be to invite it again. You can ban them now but there are thousands already out there.

@Morejustice Your comment better than any other comments in regards to this story ,I'm outside the US and I agree 100% with you. My prayers continues for the families that are in suffering over lost of their baby's and loved once .May God give comfort to all.

I have a big problem with this whole thing. They act like she was the only adult that died trying to protect those children. What about the other 5 adults who gave their lives trying to do the exact same thing she did. How are they going to honor those people and their families? If you are going to do for one do for all.

@englewoodtrkr, that was my first thought when I read the headline only, but when you read that Stratford is her hometown, a place with no direct connection to the others, who died, it makes sense.

Englewoodtrkr,

I agree totally with you. Yes, no doubt she died with fear in her and as a heroine trying to save the children, but the facts are so many lives were lost....young and old. What about the principal who ran toward this terrorist in hopes of stopping him. She too lost her life doing a courageous act in trying to protect others as well. My heartfelt sympathy and prayers to all affected by this undescribable tragedy.

She lived in a different town. That town, where it seems like she is the only one who died in this incident from there, decided to name the school after her. Not in Newton...

Barry,

Why must you bring the politics in? This was a nice tribute to a very brave person.

The Boy Blunder can't ban anything. Congress makes laws. An Executive Order is not a law.

MoreJustice: Would it have been less of a shame if she wasn't pretty? Other than that, I agree with your other comments. It is a fitting tribute to a true hero.

However, as others have said there were others who lost their lives that day, too. Is it only because Ms. Soto was pretty that she is the one that the media and the public continue to focus on? Was the principle not attractive enough to garner our sympathy? What about all the children who lost their lives...or the first responders who had to come upon the heartbreaking sight of child after child lying dead?

They are all people who should be remembered. It's a shame that only the one "pretty" girl is the one everyone is focused on.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but citizens dont need the same firepower as the police have. One day someone in the airforce is going to go crazy, steal an f-16 fighter jet an kill a few hundred people with sidewinder missiles........ At which point the NRA,s new motto will be , if the American people cant own f-16 fighter jets with sidewinder missiles, only criminals will have them...

She was from Stratford not Newtown. Her hometown was Stratford, she lived there, grew up there, went to school there and her family lives there. She worked in newtown. If her hometown wants to name a school after her that is their right. The hometowns of the other teachers can do the same if they wish. She wasn't the only adult killed but this is Stratford's way of healing.

Paul - You are a meathead..... And to the rest of you who are on the "ban the assault weapons" bandwagon, stop watching Rambo and relying on fictional movies to draw your conclusions about these guns. What the American citizen is allowed to buy that everyone likes to call an "assault weapon" is not different than most hunting rifles. It just has a different handle configuration....

Rather than focusing on 40 people who die every year by a deranged gunman wielding an "assault weapon", why don't you get angry that nothing is done about the other 10,000 who are killed annually by handguns. Stolen handguns.... Instead of giving gangbangers an 18 month sentence for possession of a gun, make it 18 years.... Use it in a crime, 25 years, inflict injury you get life... Then you might actually make progress on this issue instead of passing feelgood laws that will do nothing to protect anyone.

Barry,

No Automatic weapons were used in the Sandy Hook Shooting. Also, no High Capacity Magazines were used either. Standard Mags were used in all three firearms. Please enlighten us with what someone of your brain power considers High Capacity? Please tell us how any of the restrictions you mentioned would have stopped the Sandy Hook shooting? How would it prevent future shootings? The answer is it wouldn't. The ban in 1994 didn't stop school shootings. It certainly didn't stop the North Hollywood Bank shootout. There are over 24 million assault style weapons in the US, and no ban or restriction is going to change that number. We have a soceital problem, not a gun problem.

Wow Princess, how you do you walk around with that HUGE chip on your shoulder? Yes, she was very pretty, and any death is terrible. This is her hometown honoring her, why are you so resentful?? There have been stories about all of the people killed,why are you so upset that she was pretty? You sound hateful and jealous, let this beautful woman, and all the other beautiful people who lost their lives that day rest in peace.

Obama : Mexico's Puta is INFLAMATORY.in the name itself and so is the message. It should get deleted

I'm sure other things will end up being named after others, especially in Newtown, but this school is being named after Ms. Soto because she is the only only from Stratford. Stratford is quite a ways from Newtown. There's no disrespect implied. It's just that this is her hometown.

I agree with the sentiment. I am happy her home town is recognizing her, but I feel like the media jumped on this one teacher as the poster image for the tragedy. I have seen her face more than any of the other faces of any victim.

I agree. For some reason, she was singled out and praised. There were 5 other adults that also gave their lives. Other than the principal and counselor, not much information was given on the others. I don't mean any disrespect, but I think that all the teachers should have been recognized.

Teachers all over the USA would have done the same thing. That is because their class are their "kids". Each of these adults gave their lives and I don't feel right in recognizing just one.

Do you mean having eveyone included...as in the 26 chandles? As in, everyone except the first person killed that day? Or as in everyone included that advances this government's agenda?

And to history-255, you do realize that there were 6 other adults besides the principal?

Why is it that so few people have acknowledged that this person also killed his mother- as reported? Why 26 and not 27? Why is it that his mother is being ignored in how this story has been told? I imagine it's because she doesn't fit any politicians's agenda. If only he had killed his mother and then killed himself, perhaps then this story would have gone unnoticed.

Let's make the U.S. a gun free zone...only then will all of our citizens be protected by a false sense of security.

Why is it if the government declares a place a gun free zone...that they are not responsible for it's defense? Our courts are protected, our politicians are protected, but none of those that they claim to represent are protected..hypocrisy? How dare you...

Lee, SDMN and Windacersong,

So nice to see mature comments on the message board for a change! I completely agree with the comment about the media's choice to continually highlight only a few, or really one of the victims. I think it's disrespectful to the memory of the rest of the victims and especially to the other teachers and employees who did the best they could in that horrible situation. My issue is with the media not the people trying to do right by the deceased.

Damn, people, give it a rest. Why do some of u have to be so frigging negative about everything? This young teacher gave her life, as did others, and her hometown honored her and some of you yohos have a problem with that. Too bad the town of Stratford's sense of honor doesn't fit your definition.

And Getting Older, yeah I can tell you are. Honoring someone is not the place for you to dishonor them by a near rant about gun free zones. Everyone with a brain understands that Adam Lanza did not pick that school because it was a gun free zone. He picked it because he connected it to something bad in his life. Just as Holmes in Aurora did not pick that specific theater because it was gun free. He picked it because it was showing the Batman movie, hence his near Joker look. And contrary to popular misconception, none of the theaters in Aurora permit the carry of guns on their property.

Mass shooters pick places where there will be masses of people to shoot which generally happen to be places where guns are not wanted. Just like Columbine, which had an armed guard, those shooters picked it for something which they considered to be symbolic of something unpleasant in their lives.

Stop believing the utter BS that NRA leadership is feeding you. They are nothing more than a front for the gun industry and increased profits.

Getting Older, his mother supplied the gun to a mentally ill person, so I think that is more of the reason she's passed over. Rather than your therory.

@NUNI..........This is HER OWN TOWN not the town where the incident happened ,read the article it's her town's decision and her citizens ,her own school mates support.

bowknuckles, we supplied MOM with the guns, so maybe we should be to blame. I honestly wonder if she knew what kind of risk she was undertaking. Was it the right thing to do? no. Did she more than pay for her mistake? yes. Are "we" doing anything about it?

windancer,

This was a lovely thing to say. Thank you.

A wonderfully written comment - and I hope that others responding to this article read it. Yes - some victims are currently getting more coverage, and that is for various reasons. However, each family is dealing with their grief in their own way, and only putting so much information out there regarding their loved one. Mrs. Murphy died with Dylan Hockley in her arms, trying to shield him from the bullets. I am in complete awe of her strength, as well as the other adults who tried to save the children's lives. Her story, along with those of the other victims, will live on. For anyone to judge how a family, town or community chooses to honor or remember each of these blessed souls is their own business. Respect that.

@SDMN It is her town that talks and recognise her ,her school mates her family not the officials not media to bad that the others have no one to bring them up .WE never know what happened to the Janitor that had big part in saving all the children and staff. It is up to whom cares about you ,whatever you feed the media they are eager to report .So stop that "HEAR ENOUGH " I'm out side the US ,but I feel to much jealousy involved in such comments .She was such a beautiful CHILD ,SISTER , FRIEND ,COUSIN , I would talk about her in every news report if I was close to her SHE DESERVES ALL THE ATTENTION I have a sweet daughter like that GOD forbid if anything would happen I would scream to the whole world day and night .BE KIND ,PUT YOUR SELF IN THOSE PARENTS SHOES ....

You are a total moron. How do you breathe?

There is not enough tinfoil on earth for hillbilly's hat. Good grief

You HillBilly Red...neck moron

Yeah, everyone knows that the NRA staged this whole thing to increase the sale of guns. Get a grip Hillbilly.

@hillbilly, I brought up this point to a friend and he would not listen! The fact that most of all the "victims" are registered with the screen actors gild seems to elude any mention by the media. This seems to be more about removing the second amendment from our constitution. Never let a crisis go to waste.

I also saw this and there are a lot of other unexplained coincidences, like what ever happened to the 2nd person arrested in the woods. maybe the government staged it to make all the sheeple want to ban guns. you guys think the govt can do no wrong your ignorant. guns are selling without the nra's help.

I am aghast at these conspiracy theories. The reporting in the moments after the shooting, like all major events, was incomplete and often inaccurate. As the FACTS were sorted out, it became clearer. The "facebook memorial" to Ms. Soto before the shooting is hogwash. The 2nd person arrested was a father who showed up to help his child's class with gingerbread houses and he happened to be there just as the shooting stopped and the cops arrested him just in case he was involved and he was very quickly released. These conspiracy people MAY be well meaning, but for the love, be respectful. Don't harass these families or those that were there to provide immediate assistance. That is appalling.

The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed

Well, golly. No. The rest of us don't know that it is a conspiracy from...what? Obama? The UN? The Tripartite Commission? Muslims? Martians?

So many people would benefit from killing six year olds.

You are a total idiot. The parents on the television were sobbing tonight.

anotherdude, go get hillbilly, run to wal-mart, grab as much tinfoil as you can afford and go jump off a fukn cliff you complete fukn MORON

Can you tell me why you believe garbage that people make up?

@Phillyfan........Thanks for your comment I didn't have such good laugh in a while .....good one ...

Oh my God ....what a poisoned minds we have on this earth HILLYBILLY & ANOTHERDUDE.......names says it all.......Please GOD don't let them loose ,police should check their basements .....

Yes indeed.. Everyone needs to watch this video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6fvFVVEG5Q

@anotherdude,

You have to get it right: The correct conspiracy theory is "It was the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the Saucer People, under the supervision of the Reverse Vampires. We're through the looking glass here, people."

Some people just refuse to face reality...

The conspiracy theorists are disgusting. They want the rest of the world to check the facts? They dare to judge the grief of a parent who just lost a beautiful 6 year old child? Is there a manual somewhere for this as to how families and communities are supposed to cope with this? They insinuate that these children and parents are members of the screen actors guild? Emilie Parker's little sister, her best friend, wears her older sister's dress and people claim it is actually Emilie? A parent is not allowed to smile and laugh when recounting beautiful memories of their little one? It's one thing to question certain facts or unexplained details - but to question the grief of a devastated parent is appalling.

The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed

@ Larry AMEN to that ...

You are right, Charlie. She just gave her life to protect kids. Not heroic like you.

They should name one after you. The Charlie Judd School of Pudd.

Deserves it, even more than yourself getting your ass whooped. Do you really think you are the one to say who is deserving of respect? You're an idiot.

doesn't deserve it?

so trying to protect her kids WITH HER OWN BODY doesn't deserve her with the recognition to name a school after her?

she gave her life to try and protect her kids. the least we can do to honor the memory of her sacrifice is to name a school after her.

People are NOT plotting to kill kids in order to take away your guns. If you morons could ever figure out that a "conspiracy" can have two or three people, tops. You can't have a shooter or shooters, cops, Facebook, parents and fake children. Bush didn't bring down the Twin Towers. Obama was not born in Kenya. Global warming is a fact. Man landed on the moon.

The earth is round, too, in case you have doubt about that.

Anotherdude, are you sure you are a dude and not just misspelling dud?

You mean like from Breibart.com or one of those?

You're total and complete scum.

Anotherdude,

I'd be surprised if there is a single thing anyone can say or any amount of proof offered up which would convince you that your premise(s) are crackpot.

Apparently you shut off the news prior to the coroner's report. Each victim from multiple gunshot wounds, some as many as 11. No bodies by the front door because the shooter had progressed farther than that before being confronted. You are one sorry paranoid piece of delusional sadness.

We are all entitled to our opinions. I feel everybody who has posted a comment here, has a valid point if we all take the time to see beyond our own points, and try to understand each other. Only then, can we start to feel each other, like each other and learn to tolerate others. Ms. Soto, was indeed a hero, but so were all the teachers, and the teachers who kept their classes calm throughout the noise of those guns firing, lord only knows what the shooter was shouting, kicking in, etc. That School should be torn down, and a beautiful Memorial to Newton and their loss should be erected there, and a place for each lost individual where there story can be told....I am sorry for Nancy Lanza, but she put those guns in her son's reach; and she knew what she was dealing with, as well as the rest of the Lanza family, who should step up and take responsibility for what has happened in Newton...For the man suing the State, outrageous and disgusting, there is no amount of money that will ever make you or your child forget; or that town for that matter forget. You want to sue someone, go after the Lanza family, the father, the brother, the aunt, the officer who is living in Nancy Lanza's home and is a relation. What is that all about? What are they searching for? Too many secrets within that family...And the shame most of all, the NRA....Shame Shame Shame on you, take some of your money and funnel it towards tragedies to help the victims families. I agree with our right to bear arms, but our forefathers could not fathom the depth of violence and how fast as a society we would progress with the kind of guns that are being used to shoot down innocents. As an adult I cannot even conceive what it felt like to have 223 bullets ramming into my body. I know the gun, I know the bullets, and they are not necessary in our American Homes. We are not at war with each other, so why are these guns in our homes....NRA, wake up and smell the coffee.

PS And when we name call people hiding behind our computers, it is easy to do that when you do not have to do it to a face. Those are the kind of people who are unable to think of anything interesting to say and thus, just pick apart another individual. Shame Shame on you too....Until we start treating each other with respect and kindness, the World will continue on a horrid collision within itself.

For the love - anotherdude you make it too easy - too too easy to lampast your ridiculous assertions. It's an ongoing investigation. Did you quit watching or reading the news a few hours after this happened? It's an ongoing investigation - hence many details/pictures of the exact happenings won't be available until it is complete. And given that these beautiful, beautiful children were all hit by bullets multiple times - do you think it was possible for the coronor/medical examiner to identify the bodies immediately? One child was hit ELEVEN TIMES. A first grader. Shot 11 times. Let that sink in.

Was Emilie Parker's father speech the evening of the shooting not convincing enough for you? His tears not real enough? The fact that spoke of her in the past and present tense because he was trying to come to grips with a future without her didn't break your heart?

Of course they had others waiting at the firehouse. The school was a CRIME SCENE. The bodies were still being identified. A teacher was shot in the face. You don't need a criminal justice degree to know that a crime scene can't be contaminated.

You don't have real questions - they come from misinformation and shoddy research. Is it the gore and graphic details you seek? Do you need to know where the bullets hit? Do you need to know whether or not the children were huddled in a corner, terrified, when this monster attacked? Out of respect for these children, teachers and their families, show some compassion. Even if it means holding back on the "questions" you want answered. Wait until the full results are out. If you must, do a FOIA request - at least that way you can hopefully put these ridiculous theories to rest in your own mind without burdening the rest of the grieving world with your nonsense.

Hell no this country isn;t fine, it contains total paranoid freaks like you mucking up the works.

@ Anotherdude ...I guess it's time for you to move to IRAN .

Obama owns the media? Pretty sure Fox news would disagree with that. I think Karl Rove is still hoping that Ohio will recount and proclaim Romney as the victor. And so the news that we watch - the physical actual events occuring around the world depicted, often in real time, are false, contrary to the spoutings of varoius conspiracy theorists on the internet? Yes - some news outlets, journalists and programs are designed to inflame, incite and skew the facts - but that's why it's important to read and watch various sources and come to logical conclusions. Your above overbroad and generalized comment that insinuates that our President does not want us to "really know" what is going on in our country simply demonstrates that you need a heavy dose of anti-paranoia drugs.

You are upset about an article that shows respect to this woman? If you believe it's wrong to use this tragedy to push gun laws, you are not any different pushing you own beliefs each time a mass shooting or young child gets killed. The gun supporters do not care about the victims of guns.

There are some really bad people in this country, anotherdude, and you are one of them, haters who ignore other people's suffering just to indulge selfishly in some whacko conspiracy theory. They did not take pictures of the bodies for the same reason the parents identified the children only with photos given to the coroner. This maniac had shredded the bodies of these poor children, some had been shot as many as a dozen times. Thankfully, the parents of these children are unlikely to read the callous nonsense you spew here. Lord, where do people like you come from? I certainly know where you belong--not in the United States of America. Most Americans have been greatly saddened by this tragedy, even those of us like me who did not vote for Obama. Your only excuse is that you are obviously not too bright.

Because I don't believe paranoid claptrap like yours, doesn't mean I'm any less an American than you. It does make me more intelligent in that I gave up the oppressive US government daydreams when I reached puberty. How many years away is that for you?

okay picture of the gunmen in the school? we all know how the media loves to show those....not a one.... or how there is conflicting reports on how many guns and what type where used. I don't know what to think but some stuff is a bit out of place and please links to pictures or video that dismiss the questions peoples are having.... not just name calling......The Sandy Hook Shooting - Fully Exposed! - Video

Can anyone show photos or video of Adam Lanza "shooting" his way into the school? Why was the rifle[.223] found in the trunk of his car, if he used it to kill everyone [according to the coroner], and Adam killed himself inside the building? Questions, only questions, who has an answer?

Jacqui, in my opinion, individual greatness is worth lauding for all the world to see. Yes, she is being singled out, just as she was that day, along with precious little children. You mention the other teachers. I dare say that their hometowns might find ways to honor them. As is only right. Maybe seeing Vicki Soto's name will help her family heal, and will inspire others-and not just teachers!- if THEY are someday in a place to give their last full measure of devotion.

I guess I didn't realize that prospective teachers took courses in how to "give your life, in the scope of your job".

While I don't live in Stratford any longer, it is my home town. I've been in Lordship Community Church. By the way, it's not New Stratford High, just Stratford High School. I remember the old Honeyspot School, as well as all the other elementary schools. For my one vote, and yes, I'm singling myself out: Thank you, Stratford, for honoring this amazing hero.

Jacqui, a number of other posters have tried to explain this above, but no one seems to be listening. It is NOT the Sandy Hook School where the shooting took place that is being named for her; it's a totally different school buiding in her own hometown, which is 22 miles away. The last I heard, they haven't even decided whether or not to re-open the actual Sandy Hook schoolor just tear it down and build a new one (as was done here in PA after the Amish school shooting a few years back), let alone having any discussion as to what to name it. None of the other teachers are being slighted in any way; one thing has nothing at all to do with the other, and their own home towns (which may be in other states for all I know) are free to do something similar to honor them. But this has nothing at all to do with the Sandy Hook school itself. Please slow down and re-read the entire story.

As for the others of you above claiming that this was all some staged, faked event because you haven't seen the bloody crime scene photos for yourself, all I can say is that while I know there are some sick, twisted people in this country, you guys take the cake. If you honestly believe that there is some mega-conspiracy at work here that involves not only the Obama administration, but every single person who lives in Newtown and all of their relatives, the FBI, the ATF, the first responders, the medical examiner, the many funeral homes, the police, the media worldwide , etc, etc, etc, then you scare me even more than a lone crazed gunman does. I dare you to go to Newtown and have the courage to spout your insane nonsense face to face to the grieving families there. You make my skin crawl.

(sorry, Jacqui, that last part was not aimed at you).