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UPDATED: Here Are the Latest Key Facts Surrounding the Horrific CT School Shooting

Dec. 17, 2012 8:15am Billy Hallowell

(TheBlaze/AP) — Since Friday, a litany of facts have come out surrounding the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. As is often the case, the initial details were murky and, as a result, the media originally reported numerous details incorrectly.

It can often be difficult to cut through the chaos that typically accompanies events like what unfolded in Newtown. Considering the plethora of details available, discerning the key facts is important. Below, read what is currently known about the tragic attack that left 28 individuals dead, including 20 children:

THE INVESTIGATION: Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza, was carrying an arsenal of hundreds of rounds of deadly ammunition – enough to kill nearly every student in the school if given enough time, authorities said, raising the specter the bloodbath could have been far worse. Lanza shot himself in the head when he heard police approaching the classroom where he was gunning down helpless children.

Here Are the Key Facts Surrounding the Horrific Newtown Shooting

This 2005 photo provided by neighbor Barbara Frey and verified by Richard Novia, shows Adam Lanza. Authorities have identified Lanza as the gunman who killed his mother at their home and then opened fire Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, inside an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. Novia was the school district’s former head of security and he advised the school technology club that Adam and his older brother belonged to. Credit: AP

He had multiple, high-capacity clips each capable of holding 30 bullets, and the chief medical examiner said the ammunition was the type designed to break up inside a victim’s body and inflict the maximum amount of damage, tearing apart bone and tissue.

The gunman shot his mother four times in the head before going to the school and gunning down 26 victims there.

THE VICTIMS: All the victims at the school were shot multiple times with a high-power rifle, some of them up close. All six adults were women. Of the 20 children, eight were boys and 12 were girls. All the children were 6 or 7 years old.

This July 2010 photo provided by the Newtown Bee shows Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn. Credit: AP

Among the dead were popular principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach, who rushed toward Lanza in an attempt to stop him and paid with their lives; Victoria Soto, a 27-year-old teacher who died while trying to hide her pupils; 30-year-old Lauren Rousseau, a teacher thrilled to have been hired this year, and Ana Marquez-Greene, a 6-year-old girl who had just moved to Newtown from Canada.

THE GUNMAN: Lanza was described as a bright but painfully awkward student who seemed to have no close friends. In high school, he was active in the technology club. The club adviser remembered that he had “some disabilities” and seemed not to feel pain like the other students. That meant Lanza required special supervision when using soldering tools, for instance. He also had an occasional “episode” in which he seemed to withdraw completely from his surroundings, the adviser said.

People mourn as they listen to U.S. President Barack Obama give a speech at an interfaith vigil for the shooting victims from Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 16, 2012 at Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut. Credit: Getty Images

Authorities said Lanza had no criminal history, and it was unclear whether he had a job. On Monday, police claimed that the shooter had no connection to the school, based on accounts from education officials.

THE SCENE: Families sought to comfort each other during Sunday church services and vigils devoted to impossible questions like that of a 6-year-old girl who asked her mother: “The little children, are they with the angels?”

Many of Newtown’s 27,000 people wondered whether life could ever return to normal, and, as the workweek was set to begin, parents pondered whether to send their children back to school. Signs around town read, “Hug a teacher today,” “Please pray for Newtown” and “Love will get us through.”

People gather at a memorial for victims near the school on the first Sunday following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. U.S. President Barack Obama visited the grief stricken town today. Credit: Getty Images

THE SCHOOL: Currently, Sandy Hook’s future hangs in the balance. Newtown officials couldn’t say whether Sandy Hook Elementary, where authorities said all the victims were shot at least twice, would ever reopen. State police Lt. Paul Vance said Monday at a news conference that it could be months before police turn the school back over to the district.

Monday classes were canceled and Newtown’s other schools were to reopen Tuesday. The district was making plans to send surviving Sandy Hook students to a former school building in a neighboring town, but they didn’t say when that would happen.

During a press conference on Monday afternoon, authorities announced that furniture would be moved out of the school and transported to a new location where students will continue their education. Moving trucks were already observed at the school on Monday.

THE PARENTS: One of the parents who lost a child in the attack spoke publicly about his loss.

Robbie Parker fought back tears and struggled to catch his breath as he described his 6-year-old daughter, Emilie, as a little girl who loved to draw. He also reserved surprisingly kind words for the gunman, saying he was not mad and offering sympathy for the gunman’s family.

To the man’s family, he said, “I can’t imagine how hard this experience must be for you.”

(L to R) Newtown residents Claire Swanson, Ian Fuchs, Kate Suba, Jaden Albrecht, Simran Chand hold candles at a memorial for victims on the first Sunday following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. U.S. President Barack Obama visited the grief stricken town today. Credit: Getty Images

THE GUNS: Federal authorities visited local gun ranges but found no evidence that the gunman trained for the attack or was an active member of the recreational gun community.

Investigators also have interviewed gun dealers trying to determine whether there was any training or other behavior that precipitated the attack.

People pay their respects at a makeshift shrine to the victims of a elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, December 16, 2012. A young gunman slaughtered 20 small children and six teachers on December 14, 2012 after walking into a school in an idyllic Connecticut town wielding at least two sophisticated firearms. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

THE HISTORY: The Newtown massacre is the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history and one of the deadliest mass shootings around the world. A gunman at Virginia Tech University killed 33, including himself, in 2007. Only Virginia Tech and the mass killings of 77 in Norway last year had greater death tolls across the world over the past 20 years.

This story has been updated.

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Comments (142)

Priscilla King
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:11am
Into the early 1990s, reports of this kind of unprovoked mass murder and suicide used to mention which drug the killer had been using–they were ALWAYS taking some sort of drugs. Then they stopped, because legal “prescription medication” was involved in more mass murders than street drugs were. Lanza fits the pattern for “Prozac Dementia” perfectly. So, what was Lanza taking that caused him to look like a zombie? Prozac, or maybe it was Paxil or Zoloft or some other brand of dementia?

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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:33am
  Good point King. Did anyone notice that the headline on this Associated Press article says that these are the FACTS?
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:20am
  The Blaze is no different then any other media outlet. I challenge Glenn to start reporting the Facts and not what mainstream media is reporting and lying to the american public.
  
  This is what you get Glenn when you hire unemployed journalist from bankrupted Newspapers. What happen to the journalist who actually reported the news and who have been dragged into jail for not giving up their confidential sources?
  
  Sad to say the Blaze is gravitating fast the way of other media sights. FoX has already thrown in the towel, next will be who?
  
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- mlgunner
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:59am
  The Blaze is reporting what is released by police, and witnesses. Underlying rumor, innuendo, and speculation are the purview of MSNBC on one side and Alex Jones on the other. Now given that Glenn is trying to create an actual NEWS organization and not just a conservative slanted propaganda pooper to counter the ******* propaganda from the MSM, then he will not cover the rumor mill in a story labeled “facts”. However I would for one like to know if Lanza’s mother did work for DARPA as has been spred around. Also what connection did she and her son have with the school? What was the altercation Lanza had with the school admin the day(s) before?
  
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- JEDhbo
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:12pm
  In examining the WIDE EYED vacant stare I’m going to take a WAG and say…..THORAZINE!
  
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- escape_from_socialism
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:17pm
  “THE VICTIMS: All the victims at the school were shot multiple times with a high-power rifle,” – how they were shot with rifle, when rifle was in the car?
- paultard
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:08pm
  Children, Teachers, murdered over this? Ladies and gentlemen, we have a motive and a link. This coincidence is impossible to overlook. Two mass shootings connected to LIBOR. –
  
  The father of Newtown Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza is Peter Lanza who is a VP and Tax Director at GE Financial. The father of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes is Robert Holmes, the lead scientist for the credit score company FICO. Both men were to testify before the US Sentate in the ongoing LIBOR scandal. The London Interbank Offered Rate, known as Libor, is the average interest rate at which banks can borrow from each other. 16 international banks have been implicated in this ongoing scandal, accused of rigging contracts worth trillions of dollars. HSBC has already been fined $1.9 billion and three of their low level traders arrested.
  
  http://www.examiner.com/article/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify
  http://govtslaves.info/batman-connectionsrobert-holmes-and-the-libor-scandal/
  http://youtu.be/j_fI0hm1dqY
  http://youtu.be/Gui-VRT_YZo
  
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- Beej6721
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:11pm
  @NotACrazy – “These are the Key Facts you are looking for.”
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:10pm
  Here is a link for the same exact AP article on our MSNBC buddies website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50219357
  Don’t come to The Blaze and think that you are going to get anything different than the rest of the MSM government-approved propaganda.
  @HBO…I was wondering what anti-lunatic drug caused the wide eyed look . I will bet you everything I have that this idiot, the Colorado shooter (theater) and the Arizona shooter (Giffords) were all taking the same chemicals. That is the very root of what is going on here.
  
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- Objectivist_John_Galt
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:22pm
  Sign the petition to allow teachers to arm themselves. the link is http://wh.gov/RJ5d
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:42pm
  The facts are only made available AFTER the government makes them up.
  
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- paultard
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 7:32pm
  A QUESTION WITH BOLDNESS: Another significant question is why do the bullets that were found in the school, not match the hand guns that Lanza was found with? They match the rifle that was found in his car? There were also additional men found on the school grounds. Who are they, and why isn’t the media talking about them ??? END OF QUESTION WITH BOLDNESS
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:19pm
  “…All the victims at the school were shot multiple times with a high-power rifle…”
  EXcuse me…. if they were shot with a RIFLE, then why did he only have handguns?
  I smell ‘cover up’ here- and have to assume the obvious: there WAS another shooter.
  This story, sad as it is, is becoming even more sad as more information comes out of the M-E/LEO/fuzz and other ‘investigators’. Contradictory all.
  And ‘multiple 30 round magazines’… uh-huh… I’m really going to believe that one when he was carrying handguns.
  There’s a skunk in the woodpile, folks- and it’s stinking to high heaven… I bet it’s name is SoteroBama.
  
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dynaflow1
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:59am
O’blamo had to go put his ugly face in it like he’s some kind of master. He’s a joke!!!!

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- kegbuna
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:55pm
  Um are you kidding, he is the president of the united states. I doubt he could have ever gotten your support though. You should try to love first then if the situation calls for it, hate later. I can tell you that it rarely does, though.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:01pm
  Look at Kegger spouting off crap that progs are lovers when the opposite is true. Progs are communist pinko saps that destroy jobs and freedom. Hater, ha, that’s all you got. Projection-look it up, maybe you will learn not to do it in the future.
  
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AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:58am
God Bless, we are praying.

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noslave
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:57am
got to get the ar15 that was said to be left in the car??into the mix, to justify the hysterical pop-up politicians at every tradgedy for their GUN CONTROL AGENDA? ,rotten bunch of mutts that dont really care about the victims,like obamas fake tears??just want to use the opportunity to push another communist wish list toward domination of the pesantry??

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- TommyandtheCommieKillers
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:50am
  I guess now they are saying he used the AR, but the weapon of choice has little to do with it. The Brady bill was an assault weapons ban that came about from the Reagan assassination attempt, Brady got shot in the head with a 22 pistol.
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:11pm
  the first day they said he used 2 hand guns and the rifle was in the car cant the news people get anything right
  
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davidwjohnson
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:43am
The government wants us to give up our guns for our protection yet they’re ordering 450 million rounds of ammo for internal protection.

If my house is broken into, I may have 30 bullets to protect myself. If the EPA raids my house because of a leaking septic tank, they’ll be carrying automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammo.

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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:37am
  A paranoid moron like yourself should be disarmed, you mental state proves you are unstable. If you believe in that black helicopters from the UN or any other militia conspiracy theories your guns need to be taken away from you.
  
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- mlgunner
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:03pm
  Enicom: Paranoia is an irrational fear that someone is out to get you.
  http://libertyconspiracy.com/feds_raid_gibson_guitars_epa_thugs_confiscate_wooden_instruments
  It doesn’t seem very irrational when you look at the actions of the government against its own citizens, does it?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:37pm
  @MLGUNNER,
  
  There is nothing rational about the arguments people make as to why they need assault rifles, it is all paranoid delusions. Those that make and support those arguments are too mentally ill to own them.
  
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- RoguePO
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:54pm
  @encinom The founding fathers gave us the right to keep and bare arms among many other rights and freedoms. Delusional thinking drives people to think they can live in a perfect world to lay themselves and bow to the government for protection. For the beauty of the 2nd amendment it will be there when you need it the most. You want the government to control every aspect of your life do us a favor leave the United States. We do not tolerate fascists, communists, tyrants, or dictators. The strongest army in the world is here in the United States, it is We The People. In World War 2 the Japanese did not dare to try to invade the US because they know there is a gun behind every blade of grass.
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:18pm
  @encinom
  Are you off your meds again?One of the first signs of mental instability can be denial.Which is obvious that you are in.You also seem to suffer from a projection complex.Not once did Mr.Johnson say he had an assault rifle.His complaint is that our government is buying up rounds that work in automatic weapons.[Your projection defense is showing grandly]You seem to be in denial that these incidents will be used as an attempt to take away our rights.Its already been tried and failed.
  Please get mental help you really do need it.Most hopliphobes can be helped.One of the first things you can do is seperate the difference between an automatic assault rifle and a semi automatic one.
  You also might start by realizing most hunters and those keeping guns for protection don’t have automatic assault rifles.
  Note I have a theory that most who hate guns and haven’t had a family tradegy concerning one fall into one category.They harm people to the point that the individuals thay have harmed wish to see them dead.Its why they are afraid of guns.If this is the case, remember its just as easy to kill with other weapons, if not easier.Its also much more brutal and barbaric.My advice to you is this, stop harming ,maiming and attempting to kill people, then you wouldn’t need to worry about someone potentially shooting you.
  In essence your fear of guns comes from your own actions.Grow up and be a man, instead of the mental midget you project yourself to be.
  
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- CloudNine
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:37pm
  @ Encinom –
  Great – Enema (aka Encinom) is back! Just what we need. I am surprised you are still alive over these past several years. Is it hard to breathe with your head up your “arse”? For those of you unfamiliar with this quack, ignore “it”. There is never any relevance to “it’s” comments! You still have the Rod Serling “Fathead” on your wall, Mr. Enema?
  
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- WEBWITHDEB
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:02pm
  If only the military and police have automatic assault rifles, how can one defend oneself in a fair fight?
  
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- apbt55
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:38pm
  @encinom
  It is obvious why people say you have no clue, The phrase “well regulated” in the day the constitution meant well equipped. If we had schools properly teaching history in our country you would understand that. Basically the 2nd amendment says we should have a citizen militia that can carry whatever is available at any time in public or on their own property, that would act as the army during invasion, or to defend liberty from tyrants and over reaching government. Another English lesson, “shall not” is an absolute. The world is full of universal laws and absolutes, just because you don’t recognize them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Citizens NEED to own military style weapons because the tyrant can use his militaristic police state to rob you of freedoms. That is why it was the second amendment, they knew we would need it to keep the rest.
  
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- matinva
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:45pm
  One of the clear signs of a delusional idiot is the belief that they know what’s better for your life than you do and that they are qualified to judge you based on their ‘intellect’. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!! ENCINOM!
  
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BehindTheMouth
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:31am
Listen folks, Obama is going to use this horrible event to outlaw any type of gun. Meaning that the only people will be criminals and the government. Remember WWII and how Hitler got power? Obama is very close to getting to this position if he hasn’t already.
Pray for those victims and the country

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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:38am
  Another paranoid fool that should have their guns taken away. NO AMERICAN HAS A RIGHT TO OWN A MILITARY STYLED WEAPON. They need to be removed from homes, forciblely if necessary.
  
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- rp454
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:44pm
  @encinom
  There is that pesky 2nd ammendment again that syas we DO have that right, regardless of what your scared feeble little mind tells you. You were the one that got beat up a school every day weren’t you?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:35pm
  rp454
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:44pm
  @encinom
  There is that pesky 2nd ammendment again that syas we DO have that right, regardless of what your scared feeble little mind tells you. You were the one that got beat up a school every day weren’t you?
  _________________________
  Another paranoid feeble mind we no understanding of the 2nd Amendment. NO RIGHT IS ABSOLUTE. There are limits to the 1st rights (no right to human scarifice or to yell fire in a crowded movie theater). But logic and reason are beyond the paranoid fools that need to masterbate to their guns.
  
  Also the 2nd Amendment speaks to a well regulated milita, For either join the national guard or surrender your guns.
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:23pm
  @Encinom
  What about the second amendment don’t you understand?The milita is compromised of citizens you idiot.The same citizens have a right to own the weapons.Obviously you failed at history government and god knows you couldn’t have served in the military.Just because most gun owners don’t choose to own military style weapons has nothing to do with whether its legal to own them.
  By the way reread the article the shooter didn’t use those weapons he left them in the car.Tell me something were you a stuppie quiz reject?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:45pm
  @objectivetruth
  
  Idiot, the shooter used the assault rifle. Also what part of WELL REGULATED do paranoid gun loons fail to understand?
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:04pm
  @encinom
  Please try reading the following.http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndmea.html
  The people are the militia.Wake up.
  Now if you will excuse me I have something much more important than answering you.Cleaning the cat box.Its much more refreshing than arguing with you.
  
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- escape_from_socialism
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:37pm
  ENCINOM – I should be not your business what people have. Some like to collect stamps, other like guns. Are one of those, who like to tell people how to live their lives?
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:45pm
  Typical Nut Job. Using the Modern Internet to exercise the 1st amendment while telling us we can’t use a modern firearm to exercise the second.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:43pm
  If they intended for only the militia to have weapons, then why does it say “the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms” as opposed to “the right of the militia to keep and bear arms”?
  
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KE_in_IA
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:28am
Could this be a possible result of the elimination of “special ed” classrooms and teachers?

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- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:37am
  This is the result of the leftists creating free fire zones for criminals (aka “gun free zones”).
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:15pm
  It actually could be the result of having to many of them.They can be an endangerment to children.All jokes aside.They have a tendency to do well with those who have genuine learning problems or developemental disabitilities.They absolutely fail in dealing with those who don’t fall into those categorys.Many intelligent even gifted children become behavioral problems.They didn’t know what to do with them in decades past.they simply warehoused them in those classes.Many times they used the students as babysitters tutors for the learning disabled.The rest of the time the students used to study advanced material.Advanced for even the advanced students.Let alone the students they were stuck being around.\
  If you don’t think that years of being stuck in that position doesn’t eat at your mind you would be wrong.However I’ve never known anyone who experienced that to go on a shooting spree.The worst I ‘ve ever seen them do is drop out of school all together.
  
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- WEBWITHDEB
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:16pm
  My experience is that “special ed” classrooms are few and far between theses days. The “feel good” educational system forces assimilation into regular classrooms of the “borderline” special ed kids, all the while actually providing them — sometimes in the same classroom — a special ed teacher. These kids inevitably get some sort of being “picked on” and then begins their schooling into the art of being a victim. I would wager a bet that many “true” victims have a flash in their mind of vengeance or revenge, but with the impulse control to stave off any action in that regard.
  
  My personal opinion is that the school systems in our country need to take another look at forced assimilation.
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:21am
Let’s put God back in the schools, and universities/college, and put Jesus Christ back in Christmas, and fire all liberals drawing a salary in schools/universities/college!

Send the likes of these in in schools/universities/college, along with atheists, Muslims across the pond to Europe and beyond!

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- Sickandtiredofextremists
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:57am
  I couldn’t agree more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Liberals have turned their backs on God………and in the process have turned all of our backs to Him!
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:39am
  God had nothing ot do with this, the terrorist organization the NRA is the one with blood on its hands.
- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:35pm
  Our favorite leftist encinom has graced us with his idiocy!
  
  Your gun free zones faciltated this you leftist POS.
  
  The blood of these babies is on your hands on this one lib, so feast upon their corpses while you can because you will lose this battle.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:39pm
  Its the NRA and paranoid fools that support the terrorist organization thatn make assault rifles legal to own. The blood is yours.
  
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- rp454
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:48pm
  Hey encinomoron. Did you know that the shooter in Colorado had a choice of 6 theaters showing the Batman movie within 20 minutes of his home. He did not go the closest one. He did not go to the largest one. He went to the only one of the six that did not allow concealed carry! The blood is in fact yours.
  
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- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:11pm
  Poor encinom is busy trying to wash the blood from his hands on this one.
  
  The facts are hitting this leftist POS hard but he as usual. he will be a good leftist and feast of the corpses of these angels with his push for guntrol.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:53pm
  No. We do not want state-sponsored religion. Why you cannot see that is troubling.
  
  Who’s God do we place in schools?
  Who defines ‘liberal’?
  Why do you want to toss out the US Constitution, or, at least, the parts that protect the aforementioned items?
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:15am
Ok, one more time, where was the Man of the House (in the school)? Women are Natural Born Teachers of children, but, when it comes to handling this type situation, there MUST, and should have been a stable man in the house (now, now, not just anybody)!

ALSO, gotta remember, look at the way, and where the liberals vote, and come from, and you can detect the problem!

Still, you gotta follow the flow of money, attached to these type altercations!

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Brasil2520
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:12am
It was refreshing and surprising too see SNL open there show with a choir.
Last week SNL opened the show with Jamie Foxx talking about “how great is it to kill all white people”

I guess it took a tragedy for SNL to stop making jokes about white genocide, at least for a week.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:00am
  2 posts so far on thois news story both of which I agree with.
  
  I have questions though.
  
  Why do you use the picture of a soccer player for your posts?
  What was you hometown & neighborhood in Brasil?
  What periodicals/media do you read besides “the Blaze”?
  
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RaydocX
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:05am
It puzzles me that for forty eight hours the bushmaster was in the car, now suddenly it was the weapon he used.

Rifle rounds, as high velocity projectiles, fragment, so the statement about that seems politically motivated.

As to the question of secured firearms, if he was home and mom was not, he could procure ammo without difficulty… I suspect that will be a path of secondary control Dianne Feinsteinand her ilk follow… It will work about as well as banning the mail order sale of firearms after Kennedy’s assassination.

ALL of these gun laws have done nothing to stem the violence, because they are only chasing the tool, and not what creates and motivates these deviates.

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- Trigus
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:21am
  I agree. Very concerning when the public is being mislead on purpose. The AR-15 was found inside the car and 2 – handguns where found inside the school, this was reported by the Stare Police spokesman and other law enforcement officials. Now, things have changed 48 hours later. I have never seen a interview where a medical examiner stood on podium and chatted with media about his findings.
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:34am
  The fix is in. Remember Benghazi every time you hear the “news.” The Blaze isn’t any different. These bloggers just regurgitate the government media’s media points. It is obvious from this blog that the clown who copied and pasted it knows little to nothing about firearms.
  
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- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:42am
  The ar15 in the car did not fit the leftist narrative as that is the weapon they want to go after.
  
  I will bet money that they were told to change the story.
  
  And…what ever happened to the man in camo that they found in the woods at the edge of the school?
  
  It was all over the news as the story was breaking but then all mention of him vanished.
  
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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:59am
  Just to prove my painfully obvious point, here is the same exact AP article on our MSNBC buddies website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50219357
  Don’t come to The Blaze and think that you are going to get anything different than the rest of the MSM government-approved propaganda.
  
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Capt. Ron
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:02am
http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2012/12/15/against-monsters/

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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:57am
Ok, TheBlaze, can you give us some FACTS, like:
1. Has anyone talked with the 24-yo brother about….,
2. What was discussed in the altercation with the school principal, and other adults,
3. Was the altercation reported to the police on the day it happened,
4. Why did the shooter target Sandy Hook, is it known that his mother had a problem with Sandy Nook, causing the shooter to go there,
5. Is it known that his mother was either a teacher, or aide at the school,
6. Could he have watched one segment of ‘Lonsome Dove,’ the western, over-and-over-again, or the likes, which gave him the idea to murder the children?????

Aside from the above questions, how are we going to keep Big Brother out of the picture? Only to mess-up, and create more problems!

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:23am
  WATASH…
  
  1. I’m sure they have/ are. It will be a while before you hear any of those details because they may be driving several focal points of an investigation that is far from complete.
  2. & 3. This altercation is a rumor that no news agency has even credited a source to. Most likely it is some of the “misinformation” Trooper Vance has been referring to.
  4. You won’t know this for a while, although he used to be a student there. Judging from childhood and high school photos, his time there may have been the last time he didn’t look like a zombie.
  5. Lonesome Dove? lol. doubt it- though Tom Sellek did used to own a home in Newtown.
  
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- warrior21
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:26pm
  Some questions need answered.
  1. How long was the shooter in the school?
  2. I had heard there was a security person -unarmed- at the school. Where was he?
  3. Why all the sudden is the Bushmaster presented as the murder weapon?
  4. I first heard the shooter went directly to the principal’s office where he argued with, and then shot her. There I heard he went directly to the school nurse’s office but couldn’t find her. She was hiding under the desk. Who is putting out this information?
  5. It is now reported that the shooter was armed with hundreds of rounds of ammo. Ammo weights quite a bit in large amounts. The ammo, plus 2 handguns and a rifle would be quite a load and quite conspicuous. Was the entrance covered by a video camera?
  6. How did the shooter get inside?
  Until these and other questions are answered we have no idea of what went on. Look for a cover up as there was no security at this school at all!
  
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StandingDespiteTheStorms
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:54am
Peace on Earth and Good will to men. God is not dead nor does He sleep.
May His light overtake darkness. May His Church arise and His Saints
multiply. In our despair, may be turn to Him and not against one another.
May this song/video give us ALL hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7670CXvPX0

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Capt-Dax
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:45am
When violent shootings take place, honest journalists are forced to ask the question:

“Does this fit the pattern of other staged shootings?”

“Is there a mysterious ‘second suspect’ that disappears from coverage?”

“Is the shooter mentally disabled and under mind control?”

“Did the feds take over the investigation from the local police?” “Was this a false flag?”

“Who benefits?”

From Fabain4Liberty:

The father of Newtown Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza is Peter Lanza who is a VP and Tax Director at GE Financial. The father of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes is Robert Holmes, the lead scientist for the credit score company FICO. Both men were to testify before the US Sentate in the ongoing LIBOR scandal. The London Interbank Offered Rate, known as Libor, is t
he average interest rate at which banks can borrow from each other. 16 international banks have been implicated in this ongoing scandal, accused of rigging contracts worth trillions of dollars. HSBC has already been fined $1.9 billion and three of their low level traders arrested.

2 Mass Shootings Connected To Libor Scandal?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a motive and a link. This coincidence is impossible to overlook. Two mass shootings connected to LIBOR.” ~ Silence is Consent……

Also…The murder involing the nanny stabbing two children in NY,the father of those 2 kids were involved with the Libor

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- watashbuddyfriend
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:00am
  @Capt-Dax
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:45am
  
  Very interesting, Capt, tell me more!
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:51am
  Add to that supposed earlier government research grant for Colorado shooter James Holmes and artificial intelligence research dealing with the human mind. A manchurian shooter or conspiracy theory? Emails going around with this stuff. I haven’t confirmed even any of the basic assertions.
  Yes, money, corruption and big government make for a sexy movie plot, but it’s probably more basic than that. Just evil.
  
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- Brasil2520
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:04am
  CAPT – DAX
  
  Good report, thx for taking the time to write it, but just like the Clinton’s – Rose Law firm, the reports of rape, that guy that offed himself in the park, Hitlery in a short time making $100,000 on a investment of $10,000 a profit so big from $10,000 that a Wall Sreet trader of 30 years said he had never heard of anyone making such a return like that, all that is quickly forgotten, replaced with weather and sports
  And yes I wrote Hitlery and not Hillery
  
  Now sports with Leroy – “Today in the NBA”
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:17am
  Very nice work Cap. I have often posited the theory that many of these shooters are govt-goon, mind- control type brainwashing experiments.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:48pm
  Break out the tin foil hats, the crazies are using conspiracy theories to justify keeping their toys,
  
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- paultard
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:22pm
  The father of Newtown Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza is Peter Lanza who is a VP and Tax Director at GE Financial. The father of Aurora Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes is Robert Holmes, the lead scientist for the credit score company FICO. Both men were to testify before the US Senate in the ongoing LIBOR scandal. The London Interbank Offered Rate, known as Libor, is the average interest rate at which banks can borrow from each other. 16 international banks have been implicated in this ongoing scandal, accused of rigging contracts worth trillions of dollars. HSBC has already been fined $1.9 billion and three of their low level traders arrested.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172377/LIBOR-scandal-rocks-US-experts-warn-biggest-consumer-fraud-history.html
  
  http://www.examiner.com/article/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify
  
  http://govtslaves.info/batman-connectionsrobert-holmes-and-the-libor-scandal/
  
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- paultard
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:27pm
  some more info to blow your mind! https://www.facebook.com/notes/kazi-kearse/10-connections-between-mass-shooters/525707100781325
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 5:05pm
  Encinomom
  Peeps like you are the number one reason to keep and bear. You like to take out the regulated part from the 2nd…did you omit the shall not be infringed part for a reason? Every gun law since the writing of the amendments has been illegal. You being a front man for illegal over zealous gubmint speaks to the shall not infringe part quite well. Masturbate to your 0 doll all you want.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:44am
“He had multiple, high-capacity clips each capable of holding 30 bullets, and the chief medical examiner said the ammunition was the type designed to break up inside a victim’s body and inflict the maximum amount of damage, tearing apart bone and tissue.”

No, he had magazines. And those magazines hold cartridges. Bullets are the small chunk of lead/copper that sit at the front of the cartridge. All hollow point and frangible are meant to break up and cause maximum damage, that’s the whole point of firearms, they are not “huggy squeezy fluffy soft” tools.

“Federal authorities visited local gun ranges but found no evidence that the gunman trained for the attack or was an active member of the recreational gun community.”

Of course he didn’t. He was evil and insane. It doesn’t take a lot of training to shoot unarmed small children, located in buildings where, by law, good guys are forbidden to enter with the means to defend the innocent.

Watching this and other events I’m starting to question whether (most of) society in general is suffering from some kind of psychosis. I’ve never seen so much lack of critical thinking skills, distributed so wide and deep across the nation.

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- CALLMEMSGT
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:00am
  @ghost, isn’t it amazing how the talking heads and politicians can ramble in so much ignorance. This morning I heard talk about “automatic ammunition”, 30 rounds per second, AR-15′s being used in Iraq. Why don’t the news shows bring on people with some expertise on weapons if they are going to talk about it all day, besides the fact that they are not there for accurate reoprting.
  
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- toomuchgovt
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:03am
  I couldn’t agree more. I understand this is full of emotion. For some it brings back memories of loved ones lost, for others they look at their own children, but those using it as a political agenda are the cruelest. This nation needs time to heal. Critical thinking is gone, emotions have taken over.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:43am
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Truth is they will never know what happened for sure……………

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leasecommander
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:42am
I have a question, if the Mom was concerned about her son and his mental capacities , why didn’t she lock up the weapons and the ammo?

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:10am
  Maybe she did.
  Maybe Adam figured out where she hid the key, or combo.
  I can’t even tell you how many times my siblings and i “found” stuff my parents though they had hidden.
  
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Hearmenow2
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:41am
Funny how the president can pray in public. Where is seperation of church and state now. Or no prayer in school. Or lets teach our kids that we come from slime through evolution and there is no God, as the bill board states in times square. People must decide if God is real to them prior to these events. And not use him as a crutch as Bill Mahrer states after a tragedy. The president said we are no longer a Christian nation. I fear much of what he said is true.

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:46am
  Obummer does not speak for me or for US or for many. He needs to sink back into the slime of time whence he came.
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:52am
  Its by design of a cadre of intellectuals who have trained the Gramscian shocktroops of media and education to take down a Judeo/Christian culture from within.
  
  do you know who Fabians (with logo of wolf in sheep’s clothing), Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci, Mattechine Society, Alinksi (who dedicated his book “Rules for Radicals to Lucifer), Committees of Correspondence are? Connect all the dots
  All part of the Agenda to create an America so corrupt it stinks and to drive this culture in a direction designed to destroy it. If you don’t know all this you need to find out!
  This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. Watch it. Share it.
  It should be mandatory viewing for everyone trying to understand the rot deep in the soul of are beloved country
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  
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- watashbuddyfriend
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:03am
  Ok, @Hearmenow2
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:41am
  
  Idle prayers do not get above the ceiling! This was a political ploy!
  
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- CALLMEMSGT
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:05am
  I have a big screen hi-def TV. I watched Obamas speech four times and could not see the tears he pretended to wipe away.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:54am
  watashbuddyfriend
  
  Idle prayers do not get above the ceiling! This was a political ploy!
  ***
  Nice turn of phrase & very accurate.
  
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Dushman Kush
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:37am
Here we go again with an AP propaganda piece. No rifle was deployed by the sicko. Has the Blaze joined forces with the AP?

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- Red Meat
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:49am
  The Blaze has always played the ‘good conservative’ viewpoint meme until they don’t. They’re in some respects worse then FOX News.
  
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- watashbuddyfriend
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:08am
  @ Red Meat
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:49am
  
  “The Blaze has always played the ‘good conservative’ viewpoint meme until they don’t. They’re in some respects worse then FOX News.”
  
  Now, now Red Meat, if we did not have FoxNews, and TheBlaze, we would have nothing, BUT, I must say: ‘they are slowly failing!
  
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SeekerEmerald
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:37am
There is no statutory solution to a moral problem.

No legislation can solve the problem we are facing.

The problem is what is in the minds of these people. It would be easy to write them off as insane. While some of these people might be insane, certainly they are not ALL insane. People need to have a moral compass, whether that is based in religion or something else, it needs to be there.

This is a societal problem, not a legal problem.

All these people claiming their brand of legislation will prevent this are selling us a bill of goods. There is no firearms legislation that can prevent this. There is no re-working of the mental health laws that can prevent this. There is no level of security that keep these people away from their intended victims. These things WILL happen. We can take steps to lessen the chances of success, but we can’t prevent them.

Even in the extremely tighly controlled world of prisons, inmates STILL manage to obtain or make weapons, and murders STILL occur, even in prisons.

The short answer is that people will always be killing people, as long as their heart is black. Whether it’s blackened by mental illness or hatred matters not.

Take steps to be able to protect yourself, and after that put your faith in God. Prepare as if it is all up to you, but pray as if it is all up to God. Beyond that, all we can do is accept that we have free will, and this is the darker side of having free will.

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- bayoucastine
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:00am
  Where is the outrage at the real source of the kind of behavior shown by ALL the ‘shooters’? The source? All the TV shows, “game” DVDs, movies etc. that ‘glorify’ bloody gun battles etc. for profit while at the same time the Hollywood elites demand ‘gun control’. This type of visual ‘entertainment’ is TEACHING those of weak minds and souls what and how to get the maximum ‘attention’. Ask any teacher about the effectiveness of visual aids in teaching students and you’ll discover what educators already know. These are very effective as teaching tools. A gun is no more than a tool that can be used for good or evil. A gun cannot jump up and shoot anything without someone grasping it.
  Folks, those who have done all these mass shootings have been TAUGHT how and have seen the ‘glory’ through all these vile visual tools. The best offense against this sort of indoctrination is not government intervention but for the parents [BOTH] to take charge and not allow this filth in the house – or in schools. [When, if ever, have YOU attended a school board meeting or city council meeting – and voiced YOUR opinion?] It is pass time to put God back into our families, into our government[s] [local, state & federal] and in OUR country.
  If ‘you’ don’t like OUR country, OUR culture – move, go live somewhere else.
  Banning guns will not be the answer. Self defense, defense of home, family and innocents is approved by God Himself. Even Christ did no
  
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- GetA2J
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:13am
  I beg to differ iabout your partial comment that there is no security that would prevent would be killers from getting to their intended victims. I believe that the killer in this tragedy turned the gun on himself when he heard first responders arrive, how many lives could have been saved if the first responder was an armed guard at the front door of this school?
  
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- WEBWITHDEB
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:32pm
  I concur, Bayou. I have heard from a reliable (works in the field) source that all these forms/levels of autism directly correlate with the amount of human stimulation babies, toddlers, children in their formative years, receive. Setting a toddler down in front of the TV (while not even knowing what the child is perhaps viewing) so one can free their time up for their own selfish needs is not “human stimulation”.
  
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TheHalfrican
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:36am
Put a armed veteran in every school, plus at least one teacher and one janitor with concealed carry.

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- CALLMEMSGT
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:48am
  @half-You are 100% correct. Add that to classroom doors that only open with a key or from the inside and you have done more to stop another incident like this than all of the crap that has been spewed from the mouths of talking heads on the news or our idiot politicians over the weekend. A $70 dollar piece of ballistic glass on classroom door window would help a lot also. But fr the LOVE OF PETE LOCK THE DOORS!!!!
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:04am
  Did he go through a window?
  
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toiletclogga
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:34am
Correction to story–”All ammunition is deadly!” Bombs are deadly, knives are deadly, baseball bats are deadly. Well not really; by themselves these items are harmless. When used by a person wanting to cause harm to somebody else, they become deadly. Not a group of people, and no one thing is to blame for this masacre. One person is to blame; like it or not!

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- libsrparasites
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:14am
  I agree with you about the deadliness of weapons.
  
  However, one person may have pulled the trigger but leftists played a role in their deaths by giving the criminal unfettered access to children when they created their heralded free fire zones for criminals (aka “gun free zones”).
  
  Leftists are awash in the blood of these babies and now are feasting on their corpses by exploiting the tragedy with their calls for gun control.
  
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WillG
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:31am
IMHO the grounds for incorrect information can be attributed to social media.

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rbac1025
Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:29am
http://www.facebook.com/events/431326023588293/

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