On Friday, December 14, 2012, a deranged 20-year-old walked into Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, and executed 20 young children and six teachers and administrators. The killer, Adam Lanza was the most recent in a long line of teenage or near-teenage boys who have committed mass murder at a public school. The statistics are frightening. Between 1997 and 2012, ten boys have killed 73 students, parents, and teachers, and wounded 99 more, in the nine most well publicized school shootings. Previously unknown places such as Pearl, Mississippi (1997); West Paducah, Kentucky (1997); Jonesboro, Arkansas (1998); Springfield, Oregon (1998); Littleton, Colorado (1999); Santee, California (2001); Red Lake, Minnesota (2005); and Chardon, Ohio (2012) have become a part of the American consciousness.
The best known of these ten killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, massacred 13 students and teachers at Columbine High School and then killed themselves. The boys’ original goal (planned…
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