Newton School Shooting Amasses Twenty-Six Victims . President Obama shared in the sorrowness felt across the country after Friday's horrendous Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of numerous small children in Newtown, Connecticut and ordered that official flags be flown at half mass. What happened with twenty year old Adam Lanza to make him want to kill his mother, 20 children, 6 school officials, and then himself? A skeletal, ghostly Adam Lanza. Law enforcement officials said Lanza had four handguns on his person as he stormed the 600-student school and shot his victims at close range. There was also a rifle found in the car he drove to Sandy Hook. The shooting in Connecticut follows a trail of recent mass shootings that include: A shopping mall in Oregon, a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, a movie theater in Aurora Colorado and countless, seemingly minor, yet just as significant, other day-to-day shootings. Schools have increas...
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