Newtown Shooting
Rachael Johnson
English 111
April 21, 2015
Essay Five
Christmas Time Tragedy in Newtown Connecticut On December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, the day had started out as any normal school day at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Until raging twenty year old, Adam Lanza, simply walked right through the front door killing twenty-six people. The Sandy Hook shooting on December 14 devastated many parents, children, and even people that were not linked at all to the shooting. There have been plenty of devastating school shootings, but this shooting has caused many schools and even businesses to crack down on their security and take more precautions to ensure that something like this does not happen again. It even caused the president to question the second amendment and even try to repeal it. This has caused tons of controversy in America.
Adam Lanza walked into this school loaded with ten thirty-round magazines for his Bushmaster .223 caliber model XM15 rifle and bullets for two handguns and a shotgun. Lanza, along with twenty-six others never made it home alive. Twenty of those were children aging between six and seven and were shot dead in less than five minutes (Candiotti, Botelho, and Watkins). Also, not only did Lanza kill twenty-six people at Sandy Hook, but he also murdered his own mother, Nancy Lanza. What was Lanza’s motivation? This question still goes unanswered. Though there have been many allegations as to why he would do something so terrifying, some believe that Adam murdered as an act of revenge. A close friend of Lanza’s mother told the news that he was bullied in school. “I think Adam felt betrayed by the school and this was his act of revenge,” said Marvin Lafontaine, a friend of Nancy Lanza’s (Lysiak and Shaprio). Other assumptions of why he killed were that he was afraid of his mother committing him to a psychiatric facility because she just could not handle him at home anymore. He felt that she loved the children in that class more than him
English 111
April 21, 2015
Essay Five
Christmas Time Tragedy in Newtown Connecticut On December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, the day had started out as any normal school day at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Until raging twenty year old, Adam Lanza, simply walked right through the front door killing twenty-six people. The Sandy Hook shooting on December 14 devastated many parents, children, and even people that were not linked at all to the shooting. There have been plenty of devastating school shootings, but this shooting has caused many schools and even businesses to crack down on their security and take more precautions to ensure that something like this does not happen again. It even caused the president to question the second amendment and even try to repeal it. This has caused tons of controversy in America.
Adam Lanza walked into this school loaded with ten thirty-round magazines for his Bushmaster .223 caliber model XM15 rifle and bullets for two handguns and a shotgun. Lanza, along with twenty-six others never made it home alive. Twenty of those were children aging between six and seven and were shot dead in less than five minutes (Candiotti, Botelho, and Watkins). Also, not only did Lanza kill twenty-six people at Sandy Hook, but he also murdered his own mother, Nancy Lanza. What was Lanza’s motivation? This question still goes unanswered. Though there have been many allegations as to why he would do something so terrifying, some believe that Adam murdered as an act of revenge. A close friend of Lanza’s mother told the news that he was bullied in school. “I think Adam felt betrayed by the school and this was his act of revenge,” said Marvin Lafontaine, a friend of Nancy Lanza’s (Lysiak and Shaprio). Other assumptions of why he killed were that he was afraid of his mother committing him to a psychiatric facility because she just could not handle him at home anymore. He felt that she loved the children in that class more than him