New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was among the voices demanding stricter gun laws Monday. (Creative Commons)

First up, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized President Barack Obama and lawmakers for not taking "common-sense measures" in restricting gun rights.

According to NY1, the mayor spoke in a City Hall press conference while surrounded by victims of gun violence. 

"Words alone cannot heal our nation. Only action can do that. Gun violence is a national epidemic and a national tragedy that demands more than words," Bloomberg said. "We are the only industrialized country that has this problem in the whole world, the only one. And that's why we need immediate national action from the president and from Congress. It should be at the top of their agenda."

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News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch had already said his piece via Twitter about the president's handling of the shooting by the time Mayor Bloomberg spoke. On Saturday, Murdoch tweeted, "Nice words from POTUS on shooting tragedy, but how about some bold leadership action?" 

It appears Fox News producers had a different approach to dealing with the subject. David Clark, executive producer heading up weekend coverage, told his team not to touch the hot-button issue.

From New York Magazine: 

"This network is not going there,” Clark wrote one producer on Saturday night, according to a source with knowledge of the exchange. The directive created a rift inside the network. According to a source, one political panelist e-mailed Clark that Bloomberg was booked on Meet the Press to talk about gun control. 

Clark responded, “We haven't buried the children yet, we're not discussing it.” During the weekend, one frustrated producer went around Clark to lobby Michael Clemente, Fox’s executive vice-president for news editorial, but Clemente upheld the mandate. “We were expressly forbidden from discussing gun control,” the source said. 

Clark's edict wasn't universal: On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace talked with Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Dick Durbin about gun control, and later in the program, panelists Bill Kristol and Fortune editor Nina Easton weighed in on the issue. 

According to the magazine, a representative from Fox News "declined to comment on Ailes's Second Amendment views."

One typically pro-gun lawmaker got in on the push for stricter regulations. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, said it was time to move "beyond rhetoric" on the matter.

"I want to call all our friends in the NRA, sit down and have this discussion," he said, according to The Financial Times. "Bring them into it. They have to be at the table. We all have to. 

Closer to the horror, Conn. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy also made the call Monday during a press conference in Hartford.

According to CNN, he told reporters, "Do I think Washington, D.C., needs to get its act together and enact stricter gun-control laws at the federal level? You bet I do."

Also on Monday, Malloy signed an executive order allowing Newtown schoolchildren to go to Chalk Middle School in Monroe. It was not reported when the children would return to Sandy Hook Elementary.

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