It's been less than 24 hours since the shooting, and yet it feels like longer.
At this point, it sounds like we know the shooter was 20-year-old Adam Lanza. His parents divorced when he was 17 and he lived with his mother Nancy. The guns he used were in her name, so I don't know what background check she could have failed in purchasing them.
He killed her at their home. He then went to the school where she worked as a substitute teacher.
Now this is the point where it gets really senseless. Maybe police will find a note or manifesto somewhere that might shed some light on things. Adam could have stopped with killing his mom and committed suicide right then. But no. He had to do more. Like all mass-murderers, he had to spread his narcissism out. He had to destroy as many lives as possible. He had to die notorious.
So he went to the school, got through their security system, and started shooting.
The morning announcements were going on, and so the whole school heard the chaos on the loudspeakers. When it started, the principal - a mother of five - ran out to stop him, as well as the school psychologist. He murdered them both. He then found his mother's kindergarten class and killed 20 children.
I can't fathom having the mentality of shooting little kids. I can't fathom starting, and seeing these little kids die and cry and scream and bleed, and continuing. He kept firing. How does a person's soul not scream out in the middle of such an act?
Now that he'd killed 20 children and 7 adults, counting his mother, he killed himself. When people do these murder/suicide sprees, I really wish they'd do the suicide part first.
Now tomorrow, and next week, and next month, we'll get new information. Could be some of the things in this evening's narrative are wrong. But I saw an interview with a young man who knew Adam, and he said it was a complete surprise, that Adam seemed like a normal kid.
My five-year-old died about six weeks ago, so I feel I have an inkling of what these families must be going through, and yet not, because Tabitha wasn't murdered.
