A hearse carrying the casket of six-year-old Jack Pinto enters the Newtown Village Cemetery Two pro-gun US senators have called for changes to firearm laws, as the first victims of the Newtown school shootings were buried in Connecticut.Democrats Mark Warner and Joe Manchin, who have "A" ratings from the National Rifle Association (NRA), now say action is needed after the massacre.
Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, both aged six, were buried on Monday after funeral services attended by hundreds.
They were among 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook school.
Other victims' funerals will be held throughout the week, and the town has already begun removing Christmas decorations in mourning.
Two adults who were injured in the attack survived are recovering in hospital and would be crucial witnesses as police continue their investigation, it was confirmed on Monday.
Lt Paul Vance said they were recovering and would be interviewed at an appropriate time.
Children who witnessed the attack would also be interviewed - in the presence of parents and professionals - Lt Vance added.
The Sandy Hook gunman was named as Adam Lanza, who took his own life at the end of a killing spree that began with him shooting dead his own mother.
Continue reading the main story Change of opinion Novelist Lionel Shriver discusses the place of the gun in US societyDespite a long history of pro-gun views, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin told US network MSNBC on Monday that it was time to "move beyond rhetoric" on gun control.Mr Manchin, a gun owner and frequent hunter, said: "I don't know anyone in the sporting or hunting arena that goes out with an assault rifle."
"It's common sense. It's time to move beyond rhetoric. We need to sit down and have a common sense discussion and move in a reasonable way."
Virginia Senator Mark Warner, another Democrat who has backed gun owner's rights, told reporters outside the Virginia capitol that the "status quo isn't acceptable". He later called for "rational gun control" in an interview with a local news broadcaster.
Mr Warner said he had been approached repeatedly over the weekend as people began to seek answers and solutions.
On Sunday President Barack Obama told residents at a vigil in Newtown the US must do more to protect its children.
"We can't tolerate this any more," Mr Obama said. "These tragedies must end and to end them we must change."On Monday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said tighter gun control laws are part of the answer to violence in the US, but stressed that the president did not have a specific policy to announce.
"It's a complex problem that will require a complex solution," Mr Carney said. "No single piece of legislation, no single action will fully address the problem."
He added that the president supports reinstating an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein, a long-time advocate for gun regulations, said on Sunday she would introduce assault weapons ban legislation in the beginning of the next congressional session.
And New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a vocal backer of stricter regulation, called on Mr Obama and Congress to pass several gun regulation proposals, including requiring a criminal background check for all gun sales, making gun trafficking a felony and a ban on assault weapons.
'Unspeakably tragic'Newtown's ordeal entered a new phase on Monday as Jack Pinto was buried in the Newtown Village Cemetery and Noah Pozner was buried at the B'Nai Israel Cemetery in the nearby town of Monroe.
Continue reading the main storyI have covered stories for 15 years in the field, some of the biggest, and have never seen anything like this, nor felt so uncomfortable about being part of it”End Quote The family of James Mattioli, six, also held a wake on Monday.
Noah Pozner, the youngest victim, was described by his family as inquisitive and mature for his age.
"It is unspeakably tragic that none of us can bring Noah back," his uncle Alexis Haller said, according to remarks sent to the Associated Press.
"We would go to the ends of the earth to do so, but none of us can. What we can do is carry Noah within us, always."
His twin sister, Arielle, who was assigned to a different classroom, survived.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt Gov Nancy Wyman were both at the funeral, presided over by a rabbi.
In front of the funeral home, well-wishers placed two teddy bears, a bouquet of white flowers and a single red rose at the base of an old maple tree.
Later, hymns played at the funeral of Jack Pinto, described as a sports lover and a huge fan of New York Giants football player Victor Cruz - who wore the boy's name inscribed on his boots during Sunday's game.
At his funeral on Monday, many young children wore Newtown school football shirts.
The parents of Jessica Rekos told ABC News: "We got into her bed that she'd just gotten out of"One mourner, Gwendolyn Glover, told the Associated Press the funeral aimed to reassure others that they were now safe.
"The message was: You're secure now. The worst is over," she said.
The six-year-old was one of the youngest members of the Newtown youth wrestling association, and dozens of boys in gray Newtown wrestling shirts were at the funeral, as was his coach.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has declared a moment of silence for the entire state on Friday morning at 09:00 local time, a week after the shooting. He asked houses of worship with bells to ring them 26 times - one for each victim at the school.
Mr Malloy has also signed an executive order making an unused school in neighbouring town immediately available for Sandy Hook's students - with classes reported to be pencilled in for Wednesday.
It could be months before the school building is available for use again because it remains an active crime scene.
Bob Hurley, with clipboard, said he has players from Brooklyn and the Bronx on his St. Anthony of Jersey City high school team. “It’s a phenomenon that we talk about all the time,” he said. Ron Naclerio, who decades ago gave his heart to New York City high school basketball, had it broken early this year. 
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Tyshawn Taylor, a New Jersey product who now plays for the Nets, compared basketball to rap music. "It was invented there or created and people got the big name from New York, but it’s expanded to a lot of different places.” “Jan. 13,” he said. “I woke up and the kid was gone.” His best player, a 6-foot-9 forward named Jermaine Lawrence, was an inside force for Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, where Naclerio has coached and won more than 600 games since 1981. In the middle of his junior year, Lawrence transferred to Pope John XXIII High School in Sparta, N.J., embracing a mantra that in recent years has beleaguered the once-renowned and so-called City Game of New York: Go west, large young man. “Every kid has a handler now, a street agent,” Naclerio said. “It’s gotten to the point where you have to rerecruit them every year.” It is no secret that high school basketball at its highest competitive levels in most places hardly functions in the way people middle age or older often romanticize or remember. Influenced by Amateur Athletic Union coaches and people affiliated with shoe companies and other outside interests, the best players often attend multiple schools, including preparatory academies, in a two-way recruiting frenzy that mimics what they will experience in college. The mechanics of the modern game have been particularly unkind in New York City, which has long prided itself as a cradle for basketball legends — from Connie Hawkins to Chris Mullin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Bernard King. While the greater metropolitan area continues to develop talent, the flow to the N.B.A. from the city has slowed perceptibly. The reasons are varied and complex, but it has reached the point where New Jersey — which this season lost the Nets, formerly of East Rutherford and Newark, to Brooklyn — has become the bigger talent hotbed. The Nets and the Knicks will continue developing their city rivalry Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, but on the scholastic level, New Jersey is trumping New York again and again. “It’s a phenomenon that we talk about all the time,” said Bob Hurley, whose program at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City has played a significant role in what he calls “a cultural shift.” St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark — where Hurley’s son Dan once coached — and St. Patrick High School in Elizabeth, N.J. (now the Patrick School). “I grew up in Jersey City and spent my early life going over to watch Connie Hawkins, Roger Brown, so many great players that I saw,” Hurley said. “It seemed everybody was from the city, but it started to evolve in the mid-to-late ’90s.” In the past 10 N.B.A. drafts, the number of first-round picks from New Jersey schools has been roughly double that of New York’s. In 2011, Kyrie Irving of St. Patrick was the top pick of the draft (Cleveland Cavaliers). In 2012, Michael-Kidd Gilchrist, also of St. Patrick, was the second pick (Charlotte Bobcats). Starting in 2002, when Jay Williams of St. Joseph of Metuchen was the second pick (Chicago Bulls), central and northern New Jersey schools have produced successful N.B.A. players like Luol Deng (Bulls), J. R. Smith (Knicks), Andrew Bynum (Philadelphia 76ers), Randy Foye (Utah Jazz) and Kenneth Faried (Denver Nuggets). In that same time, the best N.B.A. player to come out of New York would probably have to be Joakim Noah (Bulls), although he was part of the trend of city players relocating to New Jersey (the Lawrenceville School) to finish a scholastic career. This year, Shane Rector, a promising 6-foot-1 senior point guard, left St. Raymond High School for the Boys in the Bronx for South Kent School in Connecticut. The best of New York’s recently homegrown and developed professional players include Kemba Walker (Bobcats), Sebastian Telfair (Phoenix Suns) and Lance Stephenson (Indiana Pacers) — though the latter two, out of Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, have failed to live up to early acclaim. Currently, Lincoln features Isaiah Whitehead, who is 6-4 and is considered by some to be the next potentially great player from the city.