December 14, 2022
Today marks 10 years since the Sandy Hook School Shooting. On the morning of December 14, 2012, after killing his mother, an isolated and violence-obsessed 20-year-old with unfettered access to firearms shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School. Over the course of 10 minutes, he shot and killed 20 first-graders and six adults before ending his own life.
22 miles away in Westport, CT. two of my grandsons, Noah and Matthew, were in their elementary school when the incident occurred - their school quickly locked down as my daughter and her husband waited for word with other anxious parents in CT.
Before and after Sandy Hook people used to think that each incident was the end of mass shootings in the US but now we know mentally ill young men are striking out as mass shootings have become part of America's landscape not just in schools but anywhere. When and how will it end?
At the end ... Simulation Theory
Sandy Hook 10 years on: How many have died in school shootings? BBC - December 14, 2022
Sandy Hook parents push for changes in the decade since the school shooting CNN - December 14, 2022