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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bang. One thousand one. Bang. [View all]
Sources said that Lanza's shooting spree lasted less than five minutes and that he fired 152 bullets while making his way through two classrooms in the elementary school.
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Lanza shot his way into the school through the glass windows at the front entrance and turned left toward the first-grade classrooms. He almost immediately encountered Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Scherlach, who ran into the hallway from a meeting room, which would have been on Lanza's right. He shot them both to death immediately.
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Lanza killed all but one student in Rousseau's class, where the children were massed together in a back corner of the room trying to get into a bathroom. One girl escaped because she played dead and ran out of the room after Lanza left.
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Lanza then backtracked to Soto's room. A source familiar with the investigation said authorities believe that Lanza started walking toward the back of Soto's classroom, where the bathroom was, when he noticed some of the children hiding under desks. Lanza shot those students.
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Some bullets struck three cars in the parking lot, and police originally investigated the theory that he was shooting at responding officers. They now believe that he was aiming at a teacher who was standing near the window. Lanza shot and killed himself in Soto's room with one of the two pistols that he was carrying as authorities were closing in.
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Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to shoot his victims and a pistol to kill himself.
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Appeals to emotion aren't particularly well-suited for crafting effective legislation.
LAGC
Mar 2013
#5
Emotion and reason are not mutually exclusive, despite what shitty Sci-Fi tells you.
Scootaloo
Mar 2013
#31
Bullshit. "Emmett Till was a 14-year old African-American boy from Chicago, Illinois.
klook
Mar 2013
#42
Unless you personally believe abortion is just like shooting kids, the comparison doesn't make sense
Robb
Mar 2013
#50
I would suggest supporting legislation that would limit magazine capacity to 5 rounds.
Flatulo
Mar 2013
#12
I am merely pointing out that many have no clue what the proposed AWB actually does
hack89
Mar 2013
#38
I think folks who buy these guns for the menacing looks are buying into a fantasy, and are excited
Hoyt
Mar 2013
#51
I really am starting to think we need to show the actual crime scene photos to counter gun nuts...
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2013
#10
2,675 have died in US fron guns since Newtown and counting, my God! when will we learn?
Milliesmom
Mar 2013
#19