This 'Ryan Lanza Facebook Profile Is The Connecticut Shooter' Stuff Is...
After initial reports that police had named 24-year-old Ryan Lanza the suspect in this morning's Connecticut elementary school shooting that left nearly 30 dead, including at least 18 children, dozens...
View ArticleThe Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting: Everything We Know About the Shooter
Facts are murky, to say the least, surrounding today's mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Here, a rundown of the basic facts we know now: Eighteen children were...
View ArticleHere's the First Photo of Newtown Shooter Adam Lanza, Plus More Details of...
This is the first photo (undated, but not current) of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, via ABC. We know that Lanza, the suspected Newtown shooter, had a mother, Nancy, who taught at Sandy Hook Elementary....
View ArticleActually, Now Is the Time to Talk Politics
Probably the most widely viewed Twitter trending topic in the United States right now is "#prayfornewton." The ad hoc hashtag is indicative of both the public's desire to show support for the victims...
View ArticleFirst Two Victims Identified as Sandy Hook Principal, Psychologist Who...
The first two victims in the Sandy Hook massacre have been identified: Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach. The Wall Street Journal spoke to Diane Day, a school therapist...
View ArticleConnection Between Nancy Lanza, Mother of Newtown Shooter, and Sandy Hook...
There are now conflicting reports as to whether Nancy Lanza — the mother of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza and the woman believed to be his first victim — taught at Sandy Hook Elementary, where Lanza...
View ArticleWhat We Know from Last Night and this Morning: Lanza Forced His Way into the...
Over the night, a bunch of news has trickled out of Connecticut. A press conference held by state police managed to establish a few new facts. The press conference was led by Lieutenant J. Paul Vance...
View ArticleWhat Was Adam Lanza Actually Like?
Details about the life of Sandy Hook School shooter Adam Lanza are extremely scarce. The most widely used photo of Lanza is undated and not current. Another more recent photo of Lanza has surfaced...
View ArticleChief Medical Examiner Releases Victims' Names: "I Believe Everybody was Hit...
H. Wayne Carver, the Chief Connecticut State Medical Examiner, just held a press conference to explain the findings of his examination. He determined that the cause of death for all of the victims was...
View ArticleI Am Adam Lanza's Mother
Three days before 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year-old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was...
View ArticleAdam Lanza Had Hundreds of Rounds of Ammo Left When He Killed Himself
Impossible as it might seem in the aftermath of Friday's horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, the tragedy could've been worse. According to new reports, shooter Adam Lanza didn't shoot himself...
View ArticleWriter of 'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother' Blog Post Criticized as Unfit Mother...
Wall Street Journal social media director Liz Heron notes that the life cycle of viral content is composed of two phases: "Uncritical mass sharing" followed by "semi-informed backlash." It may have...
View ArticleBushmaster Firearms, Your Man Card Is Revoked
When Adam Lanza shot dozens of people at Sandy Hook Elementary last Friday, he used a military-style Bushmaster .223 rifle. As America debates whether such weapons even have a place in our society,...
View ArticleInvestigators Say Information on Adam Lanza's Destroyed Hard Drive May Be...
It's been nearly a week since Adam Lanza gunned down 20 children and six women in Newtown, Conn. and we are still no closer to knowing what motivated the, by all accounts, reclusive 20-year-old to...
View ArticlePolice Raid Gun Store Where Nancy Lanza Purchased Rifle After Owner Was...
One way in which to keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them is to make sure that gun stores stop thieves, especially ones that brazenly walk into a store, take a gun off the rack...
View ArticleSchool Suspends, Shames Student For Not Excoriating Adam Lanza in Private Poem
Here is evidence of mental health protocols in America being fucked up, which is something we might want to collectively figure out if we're going to stop things like mass shootings. Courtni Webb is a...
View ArticleThe Unbearable Invisibility of White Masculinity: Innocence In the Age of...
I have been profiled my entire life as innocent. When disruptive in class, I was told that I was eccentric, that I needed to work on my focus. Growing up, I looked for fights and conflicts yet I never...
View ArticleAn X-Mas Card with a Check for a Gun and 1,000 Rounds of Ammo Among Objects...
Adam Lanza spent only five minutes at Sandy Hook Elementary School on the morning of December 14—from the moment he "shot his way into the school" to the minute he took his own life. But police found...
View ArticleAdam Lanza Compared Face-Ripping Chimp to a “Teenage Mall Shooter”
One year before he killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary, Adam Lanza reportedly called an Oregon radio station and compared a chimpanzee that ripped a woman's face off to a "teenage mall...
View ArticleAdam Lanza's Father Speaks: “You Can't Get Any More Evil”
In a harrowing interview with the New Yorker, the first since his son, Adam, shot and killed 20 students and six teachers in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary, Peter Lanza described the horror,...
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