Shut your ignorant mouth! It was because the media said it was used or at least implied that it was. Who are YOU to say that it wasn't? You have no right to say anything about guns at all and we simply don't want to hear it. Understand?
I’m not happy that it was the weapon of choice either, I own a few, however that was the case.
Main gun in Newtown also used in D.C. sniper shootings
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/17/bushmaster-assault-rifle-in-newtown-shootings/1772825/
In the school shooting, Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver said all 26 victims were hit multiple times, suffering “devastating” wounds, all apparently traced to the rifle.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/16/news/la-nn-connecticut-school-shooting-assault-rifle-20121216
Lanza, 20, fired a Bushmaster .223 semiautomatic rifle to kill many of the 20 children and six adults at the school Friday, Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said. He used a Glock 10-millimeter handgun to shoot himself in the head. He also carried at Sig Sauer pistol. A shotgun, the type of which was not identified, was found in the trunk of Lanza’s car outside the school.
“The Bushmaster was used in the school, in its entirety, and [a] handgun was used to take his own life,” Vance said.