On December 14th, 2012 at 9:35 A.M., at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there was reportedly a mass shooting that killed 20 children between the ages of six and seven as well as six adult staff members. Now even though tragedies like this one sadly happen quite often in America, I believe that the government stages some of them. The reason why the government would stage such an event is to distract the public from other issues that the government is having at that time. The reason why the government staged this particular shooting is so that they can push to have greater gun control and promote more anti-gun laws. Now that it’s been 4 years since the reported shooting happened, everyone is just saying that it is water under the bridge. But …show more content…
In a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) like Sandy Hook, the proper protocol is START (Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment) using tarps of different colors with the aim being to save lives and get the injured to the hospital. Drill protocol set forth by the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) of the US Department of Homeland Security is different than an emergency protocol because everyone at the drill must check in, identification badges are issued to personnel and observers, and drinking water and restrooms are available. Reports show that was all required and done at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Another thing that can be proven is that there was foreknowledge of the shooting happening. Tweets about the shooting were being posted before it even occurred and even one month before the shooting, a Facebook page was made called, R.I.P. Victoria Soto, a “victim” in the Sandy Hook Shooting. Its things like that raise a lot of questions on how the people who were posting all over social media about it knew that the shooting was going to occur.
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Mike Powers, a professional military investigator, and ballistics experts, observed that a man of this small of build and of that maybe disorders, could not have carried that much weaponry and ammunition. Powers also states that Lanza could not have fired so many rounds in that short of time without destabilizing himself from the intense noise from the Bushmaster due to his Asperger syndrome. It was also proven that Adam Lanza’s DNA was not found at the crime scene in the school, or on the vehicle that was holding the weapons for the crime. Lauren Rouseassu’s, a substitute teacher at Sandy Hook, DNA was would found on the rifle grip and multiple magazines maybe proving that she was just handed the gun and told to place it somewhere within the
The information Is backed up by many statistics and laws that have been proved true by many sources. Matt Bennett is cofounder and senior vice president of Third Way, an organization devoted to develop stricter gun laws. The source has mainly facts describing causes and effects of the Sandy Hook shooting. This article was written in 2013 but the same issues brought up in the article are still around
The deadliest school shooting to have ever happened in the United States at a high school or grade school, happened less than two years ago. On December 14th, 2012, Adam Lanza, who was twenty years old at the time, shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, four times and then brought firearms to his former grade school Sandy Hook Elementary, and fatally shot twenty children and six adults. Then the shooter put his own gun to his head and fatally shot himself. All of the children were between the ages of six and seven years old, and all six adults who were shot and killed were females who worked at the school. Lanza's father believed that if he were there himself, his son would have had no trouble shooting and killing him too. He also theorized that Adam shot his mother four times for each of them; himself, his mother, his father, and his brother. After the tragedy, the school was torn down and many gun-control debates heated up and schools greatly improved their security to prevent anymore potential attacks. To this day, the motive of Adam Lanza, is still unknown but the effects are still felt in the world today.
On December Fourteen 2012 Adam Lanza allegedly drove to Sandy Hook Elementary, his old elementary school, and shot and killed twenty-six students and faculty, then turned the gun on himself before apprehension by police. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary was a tragic event, it’s hard not to sympathize with the families of those killed. There is a movement, however, that claims the shooting was fake (Spaeth). IT’s believed the shooting was staged in order to pave the way for stricter gun control (Salazar). Conspiracy theorists, calling themselves Truthers, have provided evidence to support their claims numerous times in attempts to convince the general population.
The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri became a controversial media sensation. The shooting created uproar and mistrust towards police officers. Many believed the shooting was unjustified and even an act of racism on the behalf of the police Officer Darren Wilson. The Department of Justice issued an investigation in order to understand the basis of the shooting and to decide whether or not to charge Darren Wilson in the shooting. Despite the evidence and the investigation which portrayed the shooting as an act of self- defense, the shooting still remains controversial.
“Mommy, I’m okay, but all my friends are dead..” Just imagine your first grader uttering those words to you. 700 students were present that day most of the parents whose children attended Sandy Hook Elementary got that phone call on December 14th, , although twenty parents didn’t get good news, neither did Nacy Lanza. She wasn’t so lucky when it came to her child, 20 year old Adma Lanza. ...
Not one person from Sandy Hook, Connecticut ever thought this sort of event would ever happen. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at his home in Newtown, Connecticut. After the shooting, Lanza successfully committed suicide before he was detained. Which left, the state, officials, and the entire country to question why Lanza would do such a horrible act of violence to innocent children and staff members of the school. Also, questioning the security of schools, and even our country. There are many conspiracies of the Sandy Hook Shooting. Some believe that Adam Lanza was not the murderer. He was just a scapegoat and the deaths were actually purported by the government. Some claim Adam Lanza was not even a real person or that he had died some time ago and the identity was assumed into the fictional character created to be the perpetrator. On the contrary, there is proof that the massacre is not a hoax, and Adam Lanza did kill children, adults, and himself at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Most people believe that everything happens for a reason, but on April 20, 1999 people began to question their beliefs. The crime that occurred on that horrific day was said to be the worst high school shooting in U.S history. 13 people were killed, one of them being a teacher, and more than 20 were injured. It wasn’t long before two more people were added to list of the deceased when the killers turned their guns and committed suicide.
It is a sad time in American history when one can easily recount recent school shootings in their own area. This ease stems from a sharp increase in the number of firearms brought into elementary and middle schools across the country, with an intense focus on the issue beginning after the shooting of 20 children from Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Most school shooters are male, white, and often upper middle class. They are also more, often than not, under some type of mental stress that is causing them to create this type of violence in our communities. In fact, many school shooters are never suspected of doing any harm to their peers and teachers until it is much too late.
On December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza, a 20 year old with asperger’s syndrome, shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut . According to the final report by the states attorney’s office he got in the school at 9:30 AM in the morning and shot the principal and the school’s psychologist that went out to the hallway to check loud bangs they heard. He then moved on to class rooms where innocent children were learning and started shooting and by 9:40 AM, just ten minutes later, he took the lives of twenty six people, including twenty children age twelve and below and six adults, before taking his own life (State Report on Sandy Hook Elementary shooting).
School shootings have gotten to the point where parents are afraid to send their own children to school. School should be a place where parents, children and faculty feel safe, wouldn’t you want to be safe somewhere that you attend every single day? After many school shootings throughout the nation, schools have changed the ways of not only the government and schools districts but of concerned citizens as well. The one real question that we have to ask is how many more of these and how many more deaths need to happen for real action to take place? This was answered after the Sandy Hook shooting. Government officials, school administrations and even the president himself are trying their hardest to prevent these from occurring. Schools throughout the nation have changed their procedures, security and have caused domino effects on many things.
15 people were killed, including the two shooters, while 24 were injured. The shooters in this massacre were two boys who attended the school, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and were believed to be motivated by bullies, but that was never proven. The pair of teens originally took two propane bombs into the school that were rigged to explode. Once the bombs failed to detonate they began shooting people. Violent video games and bullying were the two leading suspicions for the reasons of shooting. Harris and Klebold were also both suspected of being in a cult that told them to do shoot the
There have been at least 94 gun-related deaths and over 156 people injured as a result of more than 200 school shootings since Sandy Hook, according to data from Every town for Gun Safety, which tracks gun violence and other shootings on school grounds. The Sandy Hook school shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members, before killing himself. Prior to driving to the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother at their home. Adam Lanza was himself a student of earlier shootings. He studied the columbine school shooting and the shooting that happened in Norway, where 77 people were killed. This shooting also brought out copycat shooting like the killing of nine people at an Oregon community college. Before opening fire, the gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, had uploaded a video about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Anyone interested in the mechanics of such killings can reconstruct them easily through a quick Internet search of news reports, websites and social media. One website lists rampage killings around the world. The gunman who killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora,
The media claims that Sandy Hook shooting was a huge violent of killings with an intruder that came into the school and took those children’s lives. But on the other hand, many people believe that there have been many odd behaviors sand evidence that the shooting was a hoax. People believe that this tragic event was planned and an acted on the behalf by the government so people would be persuaded to believe that guns are the real problem in this society. The people that believe that this was a conspiracy are known as the Sandy Hook Truther Movement.
Public mass shootings have increased at an alarming rate over the past three decades and have become a growing concern for the people of the United States. It has appeared that approximately every few months, media outlets report incidences of tragedy involving a sole gunman targeting groups of people with the intent to harm or extinguish life due to various motives. Recent research data indicated that over 80 public mass shootings have occurred in the United States since 1983. Some of the more recent shootings to date are: Marysville-Pilchick High in October 2014; Santa Barbara, California in May 2014; Fort Hood, Texas U.S. Army base in April 2014; Washington Navy Yard in September 2013; Sandy Hook Elementary, Connecticut in December 2012;
This event has been thoroughly dissected by a whole herd of politicians and pundits over a period of some months. But they have, unfortunately, failed to reach the heart of the matter.