The deadly shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT claimed the life of a Patch writer's family member.
Mary Sherlach, the school's psychologist, was among 26 people, including 20 children, who died when a gunman opened fire at the school Friday morning. The gunman, identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, also died in the rampage.
Sherlach was the mother-in-law of Deptford, NJ resident Eric Schwartz, a longtime Patch freelancer who covers high-school sports in South Jersey.
Sherlach, 56, lived in Trumbull, CT.
Schwartz and his wife, Maura, arrived in Connecticut on Friday evening to be with their family. They could not be reached for comment.
In the shooting spree, Lanza also reportedly killed his mother, who was a teacher at the school, and Sandy Hook's principal, Dawn Hochsprung.
yes, if you something for a long time you can always get hold of a weapon but remember that ammo will be hard to get too so you would not carry around 100 rounds. No, you cant protect yourself in the same way against Political terror which was the case on September 11, Oklahoma City or for that matter what happen in Norway. But somebody, who gets pissed at the world one day and wants to "kill the world" the next, will not be able to do so with Gun control like most of the rest of the world.
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What about this arrest detailed by a witness at the scene (see link below)? Who is he? What is his occupation? Why was he at the school? What did he say while detained? Who issued his "get-out-of-jail-free" card? Why is the media ignoring it? http://bit.ly/W9rNyE Families of the deceased, you are the only ones with the voice and the standing to ask the question. Ask it on live TV so you cannot be edited out. The 20 year old autistic kid didn't kill 26 people in two minutes. Demand that they find out who did.
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Bobbie Egloff
I hope the people affected by this tragic event first hand are not subjected to your inconsiderate bickering. I pray that the good lord place GIS hands on the suffering and offer them a moment of peace in the aftermath of this horrible tragedy.
State coroner said each victim had between 3 and 7 bullet wounds, all from the rifle. Averaging that to 5 each, this means that Lanza pumped out roughly 5 x 26 shots, or 130 bullets. He must have been using a semi-automatic assault weapon with high capacity ammo cartridges. So, in effect, Lanza mowed them down using a machine gun with a huge amount of ammo available. There is NO reason a gun enthusiast needs ammo clips of the size Lanza must have had (let alone an assault rifle). Although unsuccessful efforts have been made in the past to ban high capacity cartridges (always derailed by furious opposition from the gun lobby), I think that pushing through an immediate outright ban on sale and possession of this one component would be a good place to restart a realistic effort at gun control.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/i-am-adam-lanzas-mother-mental-illness-conversation_n_2311009.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
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