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NRA calls for armed police officer in every school

The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings."

 

Connecticut school shooter was estranged from father

A family acquaintance says Adam Lanza, who killed 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, had not seen his father for two years, despite the father's efforts.

 

Classmate remembers Adam Lanza attending Sandy Hook

The man who committed mass murder in a Connecticut elementary school attended it in 2002.

 

NRA Protest: Gun Control Advocates March To Demand Reform

Gun control advocates marched to the National Rifle Association's Capitol Hill office on Monday, in an effort to pressure the powerful organization to stop standing in the way of reform.

 

Pro-gun Dems warm to tighter controls, but GOP stays silent

Michael Bloomberg

A handful of pro-gun Democrats showed signs of willingness to consider strengthening regulations on firearms, but that might not mean anything without the cooperation of Republicans, whose senior leaders and rank-and-file members have been mute about their interest in cooperating in such a legislative effort.

 

6-year-old survived Sandy Hook shooting by playing dead

Only one child made it out alive of a first-grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week — by fooling the gunman into thinking she was  dead, the family's pastor says.

 

Gunman's aunt speaks out

The aunt of gunman Adam Lanza talks to the media about her nephew, saying he was "well-educated, different."

 

How UK massacre spurred gun control

UK Gun Control

The shooting deaths of 16 children and their teacher in the Scottish town of Dunblane in 1996 stunned the country. What did Britain do to try to prevent such a tragedy happening again?

 

Gunman attended school where he killed 26, governor says

Dan Malloy

An explanation still hasn't emerged for why a man killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, but it does appear that he attended the school as a youngster, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy told NBC News on Sunday.

 

Newtown shooter was "a socially awkward loner who talked about aliens and blowing things up"

Adam Lanza

He carried a black briefcase to his 10th-grade honors English class, and sat near the door so he could readily slip in and out. When called upon, he was intelligent, but nervous and fidgety, spitting his words out, as if having to speak up were painful.

 

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