What’s Right or Our Rights?

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It was a chilly morning in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14th, 2012. The sun rose like it had every day before, awakening the citizens to Friday – so close to the weekend. The children awoke, ate their breakfast, bundled up in their warm clothing, and made their way to school. At Sandy Hook Elementary School, teachers awaited the coming day, eager to complete it and enjoy the freedom of the weekend, and the children. At 9:00 the children filed into their classrooms, hung their coats, talked to their friends and prepared for their day. The teacher began class at 9:05, and the weekend could not seem any further away. With only one more week of school until Holiday Recess, the children, the teachers and the faculty were ready for a productive school day, like all before.
A 2010 Honda Civic pulled up to the school next to a “no parking zone”, and the driver approached the school at 9:30. He tried to open the front door, to find that they were locked, like they had every day before. What was different about that day, and what would drastically change the lives of people throughout the United States and the world, is the man did not let the locked door hinder him from what he had come to Sandy Hook Elementary School to do. “The shooter proceeded to shoot his way into the school building through the plate glass window to the right of the front lobby doors.” (Sedensky 9). Less than 11 minutes later, this man, Adam Lanza, killed 26 persons, 20 children, and 6 adults, and then himself.
The shooter suffered from autism, and Asperger's syndrome, though autism is not known to cause violent actions, such as the ones witnessed on December 14th (Falco, Miriam, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Danielle Dellorto. "Groups: Autism Not to Blame for Violence....

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...t by the President on the School Shooting in Newtown, CT." White House Press Room, Washington, District of Columbia. 14 Dec. 2012. Speech.

Roberts, Dan. "Gun Control Reform: All but Three 'no' Senators Received Pro-gun Cash." Theguardian.com. The Guardian, 18 Apr. 2013. Web. 01 Dec. 2013.

"Sandy Hook School Home." Sandy Hook School Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Dec. 2013.

Shen, Aviva, and Adam Peck. "There Have Been 14 Mass Shootings In The Six Months Since Newtown." ThinkProgress RSS. ThinkProgress, 14 June 2013. Web. 03 Dec. 2013.

United States of America. OFFICE OF THE STATE’S ATTORNEY JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF DANBURY. Report of the State's Attorney of the Judicial District of Danbury on the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and 36 Yogananda Street, Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. By Stephen J. Sedensky. Danbury, Connecticut: n.p., 2013. Print.

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