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A Methodical Massacre: Horror And Heroics
Hartford Courant ^ | 12/16/12 | EDMUND H. MAHONY and DAVE ALTIMARI,

Posted on 12/16/2012 6:19:32 AM PST by jimbo123

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It was about 9:40 a.m. Friday. In just minutes, Lanza — a withdrawn, emotionally detached 20-year-old who lived with his mother and is said to have played graphically violent computer video games — would kill 26 people in the country's second-largest mass killing.

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The classroom he chose to enter was substitute teacher Lauren Rousseau's, where he proceeded to systematically shoot everyone inside — the 14 children who investigators believe were huddled and clutching one another in fear, Rousseau and a special education teacher who happened to be in the room. Rousseau was filling in for the regular teacher, who was out on maternity leave. Rousseau had been teaching at the school for six weeks.

"There were 14 coats hanging there and 14 bodies. He killed them all," said a law enforcement officer involved in the case.

Lanza next arrived at teacher Victoria Soto's classroom. Soto is believed to have hidden her 6- and 7-year old students in a classroom closet. When Lanza demanded to know where the children were, Soto tried to divert him to the other end of the school by saying that her students were in the auditorium.

But six of Soto's students tried to flee. Lanza shot them, Soto and another teacher who was in the room. Later, in their search for survivors, police found the remaining seven of Soto's students still hiding in the closet. They told the police what had happened.

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1 posted on 12/16/2012 6:19:36 AM PST by jimbo123
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This mans body should be destroyed, burned, he should not be allowed a burial.

If his gravesite were next to mine I would not elect to be buried next to a POS so vile as this. I would not be buried in the same cemetary.Burn his body and flush the ashes down a toilet.

Some Church somewhere will have a service for this vile monster if it were my Church I would find a new place to worship.

Certainly that does not sound Christian, but a serpent like this deserves nothing Christian.


2 posted on 12/16/2012 6:33:08 AM PST by Venturer
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To: jimbo123

Elections HAVE consequences. See where we are going?


3 posted on 12/16/2012 6:53:05 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Venturer
This mans body should be destroyed, burned, he should not be allowed a burial.

Indeed. It should be staked out in the desert to be fed on by vultures and coyotes.

4 posted on 12/16/2012 7:09:03 AM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Flick Lives

Why is the media elevating this creature to evil rock star status?


5 posted on 12/16/2012 7:13:24 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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would kill 26 people in the country's second-largest mass killing.

That's incorrect. Once again the left never lets a crisis go to waste.

6 posted on 12/16/2012 7:24:06 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

This sick freak is going to be a role model for other sick freaks who hold grudges against their teachers and classmates back to elementary school and whose worthless and selfish parents let them play video games and live in a fantasy world and get sicker and sicker instead of dealing with the problem in an appropriate manner.


7 posted on 12/16/2012 7:26:13 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Don Corleone

Yes and the Bushs bring it out.
Jan 17, 1989 - After GHW Bush elected president - Stockton school shooting - Killing 5 and wound 29

Dec 26, 2000 - Wakefield shooting - Killing 7

Feb 5, 2001 - After GW Bush elected president - Navistar shooting - Killing 9

Dec. 8, 2004 - After GW Bush reelected presideint -Damageplan shooting - Killing 4

In March, 2005 - After GW Bush relected president - Living Church of God (7 killed) and Red Lake (9 including 7 in a school)

Do you want to rethink the casual link between elections and mass murder. Two in same timeframe for Obama (none for Clinton) Carthage nursing home on March 29th,2009 (8 killed) and this one.


8 posted on 12/16/2012 7:26:50 AM PST by exhaustguy
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To: Flick Lives

Both fathers of these cretans,holmes the theater massacre and lanza the conn massacre are about to testify in the 3 trillion dollar internation rate scam involving 12 major banks.........look behind the curtain. There were reports of a 2nd or 3rd shooter that quickly ended. Police radio transmissions attest to this. I think this kid was a ploy a partisipant for his own reasons but included on a more devious plan he knew nothing about.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19199683

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/libor-rate-scandal_n_1664737.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6BsyNEJ8EQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuhbCOqIaC4


9 posted on 12/16/2012 7:28:55 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: ronnie raygun

I personally believe that these type mass murders (Actually all murders in general) should NEVER have their names made public. They want their 15 minutes of fame, some fame lasting more than others but IF, the media NEVER published their names, perhaps, just perhaps we would see LESS of this type incident. Amazingly, those that kill themselves aren’t here to enjoy the “fame” once their gone.


10 posted on 12/16/2012 7:36:57 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: jimbo123

As any Marine or soldier will tell you, a barrier without covering fires is ineffective.

The newly implemented passive defense measures availed them nothing. As his first act, the murdering punk shot the locked door out.

Bullet-proof/resistant glass in the front entrance would have bought them some time for the police to respond. Of course, if you go to the trouble to install the necessary double door security vestible, you might want to also train several teachers in combat handgun techniques and keep weapons in gun safes at multiple locations around the school.

This, of course, would require the teachers unions (and those responsible for creating other other vulnerable gun-free locations) to realize that the best way to counter an active shooter is to kill him or her immediately. And since, as they say, “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away,” that means they, in this case, the teachers, are going to have develop the necessary courage to drop the liberal/left wing crap about weapons and really prepare themselves to defend the precious lives in their charge.

That’ll be the day.


11 posted on 12/16/2012 8:03:37 AM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort is the hammer that Human Will uses to forge Tomorrow on the anvil of Today.)
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To: Captain Rhino

I like the idea of gun safes in multiple locations. Much better than disarming all law abiding US citizens.

Isn’t it strange that according to the left, we can’t control drugs in this country so we have to make them legal, but we can ban firearms?


12 posted on 12/16/2012 8:30:12 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: Captain Rhino

I like the idea of gun safes in multiple locations. Much better than disarming all law abiding US citizens.

Isn’t it strange that according to the left, we can’t control drugs in this country so we have to make them legal, but we can ban firearms?


13 posted on 12/16/2012 8:30:12 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: jimbo123

“Heroics” is not a synonym for “heroism.” In fact, it’s a derogatory term.


14 posted on 12/16/2012 8:36:32 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a baby girl's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: jimbo123

The hateful punk will achieve evil rockstar status as he goes out with evil glory. Thanks to you, Media.


15 posted on 12/16/2012 8:40:02 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: ronnie raygun
There were reports of a 2nd or 3rd shooter that quickly ended. Police radio transmissions attest to this.

This is meaningful only if you ignore the obvious fact of all the other rumors reported as fact during the chaotic first few hours.

Name of the guy, the classroom being his mother's, etc.

16 posted on 12/16/2012 8:52:28 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Brought to you by one of the pale penis people.)
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