The teen says the outpouring of support caught her off guard.

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But the digital age can still catch her off guard.

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He was caught off guard, and tried to explain, then comfort her.

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While she said she wasn't sure an armed guard would have saved her son, she did say it made her feel more comfortable dropping off her other children at the new school for Sandy Hook children, a building that does have armed guards.

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So when the officer told Jeanne that her son had been arrested, which was happening often to gay protesters, she was not entirely caught off guard.

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