#tellusatoday: 2012's defining moments

We asked on Twitter: What news stories were most memorable for you this year? Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

Honestly, I still can't see past the Newtown and Aurora shootings. Just gruesome.

— @JMNashville

The Newtown shooting. It was the last straw in the gun control debate everyone but Congress is having.

— @kipjmooney

Superstorm Sandy behemoth.

— @tridentjohn

Re-election of President Obama was the best rejoinder to racial issues, followed by the worsening of the eurozone economic crisis.

— @corpwarrior66

The refusal of the GOP to work with the president on legislation to help average Americans was constantly in the news in 2012.

— @JAZZYUSA

One of the biggest controversies of 2012 was the fight for equal rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

— @JaysonFlores92

Events in 2012 memorable to me: presidential race; Aurora, Colo.; Newtown, Conn.; labor issues in Wisconsin and Michigan; Sandy.

— @PlumbbobGreen

The 2012 election, the massacres in Syria, the eurozone crisis and the aftermath of the Supreme Court's "Citizens' United" ruling.

— @nolesfan2011

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