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Bushmaster Gun Used in Newtown Has Lethal History

Dec 17, 2012 7:25 AM CST

Bushmaster Gun Used in Newtown Has Lethal History

Bushmaster also used in DC sniper shootings

(Newser) - The 26 victims in the Connecticut school shooting were all shot with a semiautomatic rifle , and USA Today reports that the .223-caliber Bushmaster has a dark history: It was also used in the 2002 DC sniper killings. After those murders, a $2.5 million judgment was leveled against the gun...

Anonymous Hits Westboro After Newtown Protest Threat

Anonymous Hits Westboro
for Threat to Protest Newtown

Dec 17, 2012 5:17 AM CST

Anonymous Hits Westboro for Threat to Protest Newtown

Hacktivists vow to destroy fringe church

(Newser) - Hackers from Anonymous pounced on the Westboro Baptist Church soon after the extremist group announced plans to picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to praise God for sending the gunman, Mashable reports. The online activists published the emails, phone numbers, and home addresses of Westboro members, taunted the group on Twitter...

New School
Readied for
Newtown
Survivors

Dec 17, 2012 1:59 AM CST

New School Readied for Newtown Survivors

After massacre, Sandy Hook may never reopen

(Newser) - The sound of kids' voices may never again fill the halls of the Sandy Hook Elementary School where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults, USA Today reports. Work crews are fixing up an unused school some 15 minutes away and it will be ready for Sandy Hook's...

Obama: Newtown,
You Are Not Alone

Dec 16, 2012 11:51 PM CST

Obama: Newtown, You Are Not Alone

At memorial, he pledges to curb violence

(Newser) - At a nationally televised memorial service for the Newtown school shooting victims, President Obama told the town's shattered people that America shared their grief and vowed to do everything in his power to prevent further tragedies. "I can only hope it helps for you to know that you’...

Comic Links Adam Lanza to Women Who Have Abortions

Dec 16, 2012 5:30 PM CST

Comic Links Adam Lanza to Women Who Have Abortions

Victoria Jackson starts war on Facebook

(Newser) - Ultraconservative comic Victoria Jackson has struck again. On her Facebook page she is all but comparing Connecticut mass murderer Adam Lanza to the millions of American women who have had abortions, Radar reports. "My friend Jim Riley posted: ‘Wasn’t the Connecticut killer just doing what abortionists do...

Death Threat Clears
Newtown Church

Dec 16, 2012 2:35 PM CST

Death Threat Clears Newtown Church

And police warn about misinformation online

(Newser) - A church at the center of the mourning in Newtown, Conn., evacuated today after receiving a phone threat promising another massacre, the Washington Post reports. "I’m going to kill everyone there," the caller said. "My friend didn't finish the job." After 10 minutes, police...

My Son Is
the Next
Adam Lanza

opinion

Dec 16, 2012 2:10 PM CST

My Son Is the Next Adam Lanza

Liza Long: 'These boys—and their mothers—need help'

(Newser) - Liza Long's little boy is a high-IQ math whiz who likes Greek mythology and Einsteinian physics. But when she tells the 13-year-old to change his pants, he can fly into a murderous rage: “You’re a stupid bitch," cries the boy—let's call him Michael. "...

Lanza Shot His
Mom Multiple Times, Himself as Help Arrived

UPDATED

Dec 16, 2012 1:09 PM CST

Lanza Shot His Mom Multiple Times, Himself as Help Arrived

Gunman might have had more deadly plan

(Newser) - The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage shot his mother multiple times in the head before going to the school and gunning down 26, and he committed suicide as first responders closed in, authorities said today, raising the specter that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre and...

Feinstein:
I'm Bringing
Assault Weapon
Ban to Senate

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Dec 16, 2012 12:07 PM CST

Feinstein: I'm Bringing Assault Weapon Ban to Senate

Gun control dominates the day in wake of Newtown shootings

(Newser) - Gun control has roared back into the national debate, and the issue took over today's political talk shows in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, though David Gregory noted that all 31 pro-gun rights members of the incoming Senate declined his invitation to appear on Meet the Press....

These Are the Newtown Victims

Dec 16, 2012 10:03 AM CST

These Are the Newtown Victims

AP gets a look at some of the lives lost in Friday's massacre

(Newser) - The names of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings were released yesterday , and glimpses into their lives, snapshots, and tributes are emerging this morning. Dad Robbie Parker last night remembered 6-year-old Emilie, reports the LA Times , the first parent to speak publicly of his lost child. "All...

SNL Honors Conn. Victims

Dec 16, 2012 7:03 AM CST

SNL Honors Conn. Victims

New York Children's Chorus sings 'Silent Night'

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live shelved the jokes for last night's Cold Open, opting instead to let the kids do the talking in the wake of Friday's Connecticut school shooting : The show opened with the voices of the New York Children's Chorus singing "Silent Night" without accompaniment, reports...

Obama
Headed to
Conn. Today

Dec 16, 2012 5:33 AM CST

Obama Headed to Conn. Today

Commander-in-chief's 4th turn at aftermath of a mass shooting

(Newser) - Making a sadly familiar journey, President Barack Obama will attend an evening vigil in Newtown, Conn., to mourn with a town still seeking to comprehend the unimaginable massacre of its children and teachers. His visit today to this southeastern Connecticut community comes two days after a man opened fire inside...

Gun-Control
Plan? That
Got Shelved

Dec 15, 2012 5:35 PM CST

Gun-Control Plan? That Got Shelved

Proposal could fortify FBI background-check system

(Newser) - The Justice Department developed a new gun-control initiative after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting last year but shelved it in the heat of a presidential election campaign, the New York Times reports. Whether President Obama will revive it in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting is unknown. But the basic...

School Victims All Shot
With Semiautomatic Rifle

Names released

Dec 15, 2012 3:48 PM CST

School Victims All Shot With Semiautomatic Rifle

Police release names, ages of the victims

(Newser) - The victims of the Connecticut school shooting were shot multiple times with a semiautomatic rifle, the medical examiner said today, and he called the injuries "devastating" and the worst he and colleagues had ever seen. All of the 20 children killed were 6 or 7 years old and each...

Shooter's Mom
Was 'Big, Big
Gun Fan'

Dec 15, 2012 3:41 PM CST

Shooter's Mom Was 'Big, Big Gun Fan'

Nancy Lanza showed strain of raising 'troubled son'

(Newser) - Adam Lanza's mother loved guns and took her kids target shooting—but was also a high-strung woman who seemed just able to hold herself together. People who knew Nancy Lanza, the first victim in yesterday's massacre, tell the New York Times she also liked landscaping, jazz, and craft...

Principal Was
Trying to Stop
Gunman
When Killed

Dec 15, 2012 1:30 PM CST

Principal Was Trying to Stop Gunman When Killed

Dawn Hochsprung was reportedly lunging at shooter

(Newser) - Stories of heroism are emerging in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting, including that of a first-grade teacher who was killed after hiding her students, and a custodian who ran through the halls making sure doors were locked. Now principal Dawn Hochsprung joins the list. The AP , quoting town...

Report: Shooter Had Run-In With School Staff Day Before

Dec 15, 2012 12:07 PM CST

Report: Shooter Had Run-In With School Staff Day Before

NBC says Adam Lanza had altercation prior to massacre

(Newser) - NBC News adds one more piece to the puzzle: It reports that Adam Lanza had some kind of altercation with four staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Thursday, the day before the massacre . Three of those staffers were killed, and the fourth was not at school yesterday and...

Teacher Died
Saving Students

Dec 15, 2012 11:15 AM CST

Teacher Died Saving Students

Victoria Soto hid her students, then was shot

(Newser) - One of the six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a first-grade teacher who made sure her students were safe before she was herself shot, reports the Hartford Courant . Victoria Soto, who turned 27 this month, taught next door to the room where the heaviest shooting broke out....

Police: Gunman Forced
His Way Into School

Dec 15, 2012 10:46 AM CST

Police: Gunman Forced His Way Into School

Also, his mother apparently did not teach there after all

(Newser) - Police are still keeping many of the details of the Connecticut school shooting under wraps, but they made clear this morning that the gunman didn't simply walk into the building, reports the Washington Post . "He was not let in voluntarily," a State Police lieutenant said. "He...

Rhetoric Shifts From 'Gun Control' to 'Gun Rights'

nate silver

Dec 15, 2012 8:47 AM CST

Rhetoric Shifts From 'Gun Control' to 'Gun Rights'

Nate Silver: Change in semantics seems to be helping the gun lobby

(Newser) - Nate Silver applies his number-crunching ways to the debate over guns and finds that opponents of stricter laws might be winning with the help of semantics. His analysis of newspaper articles finds that the phrase "gun control" is being used much less than it was in the 1980s and...