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Police: Sandy Hook gunman had compiled ‘doctoral thesis’ of mass shootings
The 20-year-old man behind the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut kept a database and “score sheet” of similar crimes as part of a plan to achieve greater levels of violence, CBS News reported on Monday. Police said Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people in the December 2012 attack on Sandy…
Adam Lanza wanted to kill more people than Anders Breivik: report
Undisclosed law enforcement sources told CBS News on Monday that Adam Lanza shot children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut after being inspired by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. Lanza thought he was in competition with Breivik, a rightwing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011. Breivik said he…
Men of God Blame Lanza’s Invisible Atheism, Crow About Being Action Movie Heroes
Frank Schaeffer has written an angry piece denouncing the inevitable round of Christian leaders who claim that it was secularism and atheism that caused the Sandy Hook shooting. (Anything but chipping away at gun profits, remember.) It’s a wonderland of fantastical thinking, that’s for sure. Dobson commented while speaking to listeners of…
Newtown gunman blasted his way in, says Connecticut Gov. Malloy
The gunman in the Connecticut school massacre that left 20 small children dead blasted his way through a locked glass door, climbed through and proceeded with his killing spree, the state governor said on Sunday. “He shot his way into the school. The school was locked. He used a weapon…
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