S is for Sandy Hook, CT

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The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when a 20-year-old man fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, the perpetrator committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at either a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.

I was sure that changes would be enacted after such as awful shooting, but they were not.

Some time before 9:30 a.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012, the perpetrator shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home.  He then drove to the Sandy Hook school.  Shortly after 9:35 a.m., using his mother's Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, he shot his way through a glass panel next to the locked front entrance doors of the school.  Reading the details of the account on Wikipedia is incredibly painful, and I will just summarize.  Some teachers were shot in the hallway, some escaped.  The shooter entered two classrooms, shooting everyone there.  He then committed suicide as police and first responders arrived.

Killed:
Perpetrator's mother
Nancy Lanza, 52, (shot at home)
School personnel
Rachel D'Avino, 29, teacher's aide
Dawn Hochsprung, 47, principal
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher's aide
Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
Victoria Leigh Soto, 27, teacher
Students
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
Ana Márquez-Greene, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6

Remember the victims.

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