I'm sure all of you know about this but for the ones who don't:

A gunman killed 26 people, 20 of them children between ages 5 and 10, in a shooting on Friday morning at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., about 65 miles northeast of New York City, the authorities said.

 

 

The gunman, who was believed to be in his 20s, walked into a classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where his mother was a teacher. He shot and killed her and then killed 20 students, most in the same classroom. He also fatally shot five other adults, and then killed himself inside the school. One person was also injured in the shooting.

Another body related to the shooting was at another scene, the authorities said, declining to provide more specifics.

A law enforcement official identified the shooter as Adam Lanza and said that a brother, Ryan Lanza, had been questioned.

The mass shooting is among the worst in the nation’s history.

“The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old,” a visibly distraught President Obama said in remarks televised nationally.

After pausing to compose himself for perhaps five long seconds, Mr. Obama said, “They had their entire lives ahead of them: birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.”

Then the president wiped the corner of his eye.

Some witnesses described a harrowing scene inside the school with the sounds of gunfire followed by sounds of screams as terrified students and staff members hid in classrooms, closets or wherever they could quickly take shelter.

One 9-year-old student said he was in the gym when the shooting erupted.

“We were in the gym, and I heard really loud bangs,” said the boy, as he stood shivering and weeping outside the school with his father’s arms draped around him. “We thought that someone was knocking something over. And we heard yelling, and we heard gunshots. We heard lots of gunshots. We heard someone say, ‘Put your hands up.’ I heard, ‘Don’t shoot.’

“We had to go into the closet in the gym. Then someone came and told us to run down the hallway. There were police at every door. There were lots of people crying and screaming.”

Yvonne Cech, a school librarian, said she along with two library clerks, a library catalog assistant and 18 fourth graders spent 45 minutes locked in a closet during the shootings. "The SWAT team escorted us out," she said, and then all 18 children were reunited with their parents.

Another student at the school told an NBC station in Connecticut: “I was in the gym and I heard like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in the corner and we huddled. We all heard these booming noises, and we started crying. So the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us. Then a police officer told us to run outside.”

The State Police said the Newtown police called them shortly after 9:30 a.m., said Lt. J. Paul Vance of the State Police. “On- and off-duty troopers responded to the school and with Newtown police immediately upon arrival entered the school and began an active shooter search,” Lieutenant Vance said.

Eighteen of the students were pronounced dead at the school, and two others were taken to hospitals where they were declared dead. All the adults shot at the school were pronounced dead at the scene.

Law enforcement officials said the weapons used by the gunman were a Sig Sauer and a Glock. In addition to the two handguns, the police also found an M4 carbine at the scene that they believe belonged to the gunman.

Meredith Artley, the managing editor of CNN.com, said someone who works at the school told her the shooting happened in the hallway. “She described it as a ‘Pop, pop, pop,'” Ms. Artley said. “She said three people went out into the hall and only one person came back, the vice principal, she said, who was shot in the leg or the foot, who came crawling back. She cowered under the table and called 911. There must have been a hundred rounds.”

 

As news of the shooting spread, frantic family members descended on the scene and were taken to a nearby fire house where teachers and students who had been evacuated from the school had been taken by the authorities. Some clergy members were also at the fire house.

 

 

“The teachers wrote down the names of all the children,'’ said Monsignor. Robert Weiss, the pastor at St. Rose of Lima in Newtown. “The ones who were unaccounted for, those parents went to another room and wrote their names on a list.”

“It was around, obviously,” he added, “the number that passed away.”

Another clergy member at the fire house, Rabbi Sholom Deitsch of Chabbad Jewish Center in Ridgefield, Conn., said: “I see a lot of fear and disbelief in peoples eyes. It’s a very difficult scene, one I’ve never seen in my life.”

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut, who was at the scene of the shooting comforting relatives of victims, called the killings a “tragedy of unspeakable terms.”

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, who has been a vocal advocate for gun control in the United States, issued an exasperated statement criticizing national leaders for failing to do more to stop gun violence.

“We have heard all the rhetoric before,” he said. “What we have not seen is leadership – not from the White House and not from Congress.”

Mr. Bloomberg waited to issue his statement until after Mr. Obama spoke, hoping that he would hear something more specific on gun control. But he did not.

“President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action.”

The school, located among wooded hills and suburban tracts in Fairfield County, 12 miles east of Danbury, serves kindergarten through fourth grade. The school has about 700 students.

“It’s just a little country school,” said Robert Place, 65, as he stood near the scene. “The look is very ′50s or ′60s. One floor. It’s always had a good reputation. People come to Newtown for the schools.”

Lillian Bittman, a former chairwoman of the Newtown Board of Education, has three children who attended Sandy Hook.

“It’s a place that feels like my house, a place that feels like my home,'’ she said. “It’s as if he walked into my house and did this. I’m not alone in feeling this. Everyone I talked to feels that way. When people left Sandy Hook, when they aged out, they were sad. They were sad their kids wouldn’t be part of that community.”

The school’s principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was reportedly one of those shot. But at the home of her daughter Cristina Hassinger, in Oakville, Conn., the family was still awaiting any news of her fate.

“We’re looking for any hope,” said Ryan Hassinger, the son-in-law of the principal.

“I looked on Twitter and it says that she is passed,” Mr. Hassinger said. But, he added, the family was “just waiting.”

Mr. Obama was briefed on the shooting at 10:30 a.m., the White House said.

“We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in these past few years, and each time I learn the news I react not as a president but as anyone else would as a parent and that was especially true today,” Mr. Obama said on Friday afternoon. “I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.”

Maureen Kerins, a hospital nurse who lives close to the school, learned of the shooting from the television and hurried to the school to see if she could help. “I stood outside waiting to go in, but a police officer came out and said they didn't need any nurses so I knew it wasn’t good,” Ms. Kerins said.

In front of a senior center next door to the school, a 20-year-old woman was with her 4-year-old sister, who was in the school at the time of the shooting. The older woman came to pick up her younger sister along with their mother. The girl had her arms and legs wrapped around her older sister.

When a reporter asked the woman what the little girl knew of what had happened, the woman said, “Absolutely nothing, and we don’t plan to tell her anything.”

 

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

 

 

I heard this on the radio on the way to school, and decided to read about what actually happened since I was confused on the situation. Now...im gonna go cry. I feel so bad for the kids who have died, the mother who died and the other adults or kids who were victims and killed as well. ;~;

I just hate it when I hear about these stuff, and don't feel nothing about it.

 

I know that this is a big tragedy, but I just feel numb about it.

I can't believe this is the world we're living in anymore ;~;

Condolences to their friends and family.

This is really messed up...killing kids but what do you gain from killing little kids?I wonder what psychos were thinking and I'm shocked anybody would do this.

This is really messed up...killing kids but what do you gain from killing little kids?I wonder what psychos were thinking and I'm shocked anybody would do this.

What they were thinking isn't really hard to figure out. They were suicidal, and realized, oh, hey, I could kill myself as a loser no one remembers in my basement, or I could be remembered forever for something awful. People are going to keep trying to top each other. 

What happened was horrible, but now we have something else to deal with. Within of Newton, the Westboro Baptist Church is going to be protesting the funeral saying it's  "what god wanted" and stuff like that. I can't believe they would even do that, I know they just want people to hurt them so they can sue them but come on? Are they really that terrible that they would go ahead and protest about dead little kids saying "God wanted to kill them, and they deserve it"?

What happened was horrible, but now we have something else to deal with. Within of Newton, the Westboro Baptist Church is going to be protesting the funeral saying it's  "what god wanted" and stuff like that. I can't believe they would even do that, I know they just want people to hurt them so they can sue them but come on? Are they really that terrible that they would go ahead and protest about dead little kids saying "God wanted to kill them, and they deserve it"?

 

 

Yes they really are that shitty of people .They aren't a real church or even christian .They are a cult imo .They make me sick ..However, if they do that you just know there's someone out there outraged enough to attack/kill them out of pure rage and then they will  'deserve' whatever they get if you ask me ..What a bunch of nutjobs..

Yes they really are that shitty of people .They aren't a real church or even christian .They are a cult imo .They make me sick ..However, if they do that you just know there's someone out there outraged enough to attack/kill them out of pure rage and then they will  'deserve' whatever they get if you ask me ..What a bunch of nutjobs..

 

 

They are shitty people. A group of people are gonna protest what they are protesting. They are gonna be followed. Funny idea but it wont work....

Edited December 16, 201212 yr by Shana09

They are shitty people. A group of people are gonna protest what they are protesting. They are gonna be followed. Funny idea but it wont work....

 

Are those the same people who protested at military funerals because the militarys suports gays or whatever it was?

What happened was horrible, but now we have something else to deal with. Within of Newton, the Westboro Baptist Church is going to be protesting the funeral saying it's  "what god wanted" and stuff like that. I can't believe they would even do that, I know they just want people to hurt them so they can sue them but come on? Are they really that terrible that they would go ahead and protest about dead little kids saying "God wanted to kill them, and they deserve it"?

Nooooooooooooo not those weird people again D:< Freaking weirdos

Sick firetrucked up bastard, What makes someone so firetrucked up to the point where they wanna kill innocent children? That act in itself is horrible, no one should do something so cold and destructive like that. Too bad it is apart of the world we live in, with crazy people running amok shooting and executing people without mercy or remorse. they are the scum and the cancer of the earth that fester and defile everything they touch, they sicken me. My heart goes out to their families and I hope they stay strong during this very difficult period in their lives. 

Are those the same people who protested at military funerals because the militarys suports gays or whatever it was?

 

 

Protesting militaries who support gay rights? Yeah that's probably them. 

They just protest and aggravate people so they can hurt them, and then they sue the person. 

My Band Teacher today told my class about the plan if we are in a lock down. Listen to this.

 

IF there was a lock-down, The band room is THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL. Why? My band room is almost underground, it was built on a slope.

 

My teacher would quickly lock the doors and cut all out the lights off, send some of us into the Percussion Storage Room, some into the HUGE teacher's bathroom, and the rest to the back of his long office. He would then barricaded the doors with the band room chairs, stands, chimes, Marimba's, Drums, ECT. and he would stay in there protecting us.

 

HERE IS THE FREAKY-YET-SOMEHOW-COOL COOL PART.

 

If we were in the other room, there is a latter in a little closet leading up to the air shaft. In the air shaft, there is a small concrete room that can hold up to 10+ people. We would hide in there.

 

He also said there was TONS of more places to hide, but he wasn't aloud to tell us where they were or he would get fired.

 

 

 

 

My mom won't tell my little sisters about the shooting, they are both really scared of a lot of stuff.

 

Im just glad that wasn't me in that school and I'm passing prayers to the hurt families. 

I was seriously sick to my stomach about this tragedy and cried my eyes out quite a few times over it. And you know what makes me really pissed off?… This:

 

 

Like are you firetrucking kidding me?!?! People are so insensitive, so stupid, so heartless, so… so.. UGH!! I hate these kinds of people! Justin Bieber over a tragedy that has struck the WORLD??? These people are complete assholes!  :angry:

I was seriously sick to my stomach about this tragedy and cried my eyes out quite a few times over it. And you know what makes me really pissed off?… This:

 

 

Like are you firetrucking kidding me?!?! People are so insensitive, so stupid, so heartless, so… so.. UGH!! I hate these kinds of people! Justin Bieber over a tragedy that has struck the WORLD??? These people are complete assholes!  :angry:

 

 

I know they are so god damn annoying and aggravating. Why would someone dismiss the tragedy as something stupid and rather go watch Justin Bieber on Ellen?

I understand completely by why everyone is upset (myself included), but why did it take this? For some reason, in America, we don't seem to care who dies. We only care HOW they die. Quadruple how many children died here die every day in horrific car accidents. Do we ever hear about them? Only extremely rarely. At least one person will die in every state today from a driver who was texting. Do we hear about all of them on the nightly news? Nope. 

 

This is a horrible tragedy, but why do we only pay attention to the deaths of children if they're shot? 

I understand completely by why everyone is upset (myself included), but why did it take this? For some reason, in America, we don't seem to care who dies. We only care HOW they die. Quadruple how many children died here die every day in horrific car accidents. Do we ever hear about them? Only extremely rarely. At least one person will die in every state today from a driver who was texting. Do we hear about all of them on the nightly news? Nope. 

 

This is a horrible tragedy, but why do we only pay attention to the deaths of children if they're shot? 

 

 

Possibly because this guy killed 20 kids and on purpose, while the guy driving did it accidently. 

Possibly because this guy killed 20 kids and on purpose, while the guy driving did it accidently. 

Children are intentionally murdered across the country, for probably the same numbers per day. We don't hear about them, either. 

One thing that is really stupid about this is that for some bizarre reason people start to say that this shooting was Mass Effect's fault. Like what? The murderer had liked Mass Effect's facebook page sure, but how is that ideal reason to make conclusions like this? How come, that I or anyone else who has played Mass Effect gone and killed someone? This is just ridiculous! Sure it is the game that kills people.

Children are intentionally murdered across the country, for probably the same numbers per day. We don't hear about them, either. 

 

 

Well I don't know about you , but EVERY child murdered bothers me let alone 20 of them at one time so senselessly. It's the idea that you send your child to school thinking they are safe and sound to get an education and find out they are slaughtered while learning their ABC's.It's a horrendous thought .

I hate these people -_- http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/20121217_CT-Shooter-Principal-Funeral.pdf

I hate these people -_- http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/20121217_CT-Shooter-Principal-Funeral.pdf

 

 

They really want to be hurt and killed badly.

They are just doing this to provoke someone, don't let it get to you. God knows whether they are telling what they actually believe in or just making shit up just to sue people. 

They really want to be hurt and killed badly.

They are just doing this to provoke someone, don't let it get to you. God knows whether they are telling what they actually believe in or just making shit up just to sue people. 

Indeed :I

Tragic. Instead of making others feel pain and sadness, he should have just took it out on himself.

I read this on the newspaper and i cried.

 

I couldnt understand why would this stupid man go and kill some innocent children!