Essay On Sandy Hook Shooting

You’re walking into school and it’s like any other day. Since it’s December, most teachers are getting ready for winter break with parties and festivities...until you hear a series of gunshots echo throughout the hallway. Then an announcement comes on, telling everyone that the school is under lockdown. But when the police arrive, it’s already too late. This is what happened to the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Several years after the shooting, Adam Lanza, the shooter, was believed to be suffering with several mental disabilities, but he was never diagnosed. During elementary school he was also bullied and beaten as a child at school by classmates.

Memory is a very important part in this very popular event. Knowing what to do in this type of situation is very significant. When an unfamiliar person comes into a school or building the staff and teachers should be aware as to what to do and how to handle it. The teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School knew exactly what to do and they handled it in a very calm manner. It is important when you

To be afraid is no less an innate behavior than to be hungry. To find relief we look to fill ourselves with comfort and content, but there will always be hunger, and there will always be fear. We as human beings cannot control our surroundings, and with them the fear that hides underneath and in-between. We cannot escape the feeling of fear or its constant pestering, but we may control how we react to it. Those affected by the unspeakable events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December of 2012 have come face to face with terror, many sweet and innocent souls coming so close as to shake hands with death. Closely following responses of differing viewpoint and opinion ensued, regarding what had happened and what is to be done in the future.

Sandy Hook is in a little town called Newtown in Connecticut little outside of New York City. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza kills his own mother with four gunshots and moves his footsteps to Sandy Hook Elementary. It was 9:35 a.m. when class had begun and two students were on their way to turn in the attendance sheet to the office when they hear a gun. The two students hurried into the closest classroom and hid with the other students and teachers where they were safe. This school had approximately 700 students present that day when Adam Lanza forced himself into the school shooting down the locked doors. He later shoots twenty students and six teachers and slain them. Most students and teachers survived hiding in the gymnasium, closet, bathroom, and under their desks. When the principle and other staff members were holding a meeting they heard a loud pop and went out to look over what happened, but sadly only the vice principal returns safely back to the office.

This incident in called the Sandy Hook Shooting. This was a day where kids went to school not knowing they would not come home. Many innocent children lost their lives in this incident. None of them ever knew what would happen on one Friday night. “At about 9:30 a.m., as announcements were read over the loudspeaker to the student's, shots were heard across the school. Students described being ushered into bathrooms and closets by teachers after hearing the first shots.” No young kid or anyone else should have to witness anything about this type of situation. “Lanza moved toward two classrooms of kindergartners and first-graders, police said. In one classroom was Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher who was filling in for a teacher out on maternity leave. The gunman shot all 14 students in the classroom, law enforcement officers said.” 28 people died is this shooting. Including the shooter and the shooters

School shootings have been happening all over the country for the past four decades, but it wasn’t until the 1990’s what the impact from experiencing a trauma of this magnitude can do both psychological and psychically started coming to light as well as creating more national attention for the arising problem in our nation. In 1998 in small town in Oregon, Kip Kinkel walked into Thurston High School killing four and wounded twenty-three students and in 1999 in Colorado at Columbine High School Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into school killing fifteen and wounded twenty-one, making it the worst school shooting of the decade. Fast forward to 2007 and we’re in Virginia at the small college campus of Virginia Tech, were Seung-Hui Cho opened fire killing thirty two and wounding many more while then in 2008 at Northern Illinois University Steven Kazmierczak walked into Cole Hall killing five and injuring twenty one.

Friday, December 14, 2012 will forever be a date not necessarily marked on our calendars, but in our hearts. While millions of Americans continued their normal routines, innocent children’s lives, as well as a handful of heroic teachers, were taken away in a matter of seconds, since “each victim was shot three to eleven times,” according to medical examiner, H. Wayne Carver (Circa Part 4). Superintendent Janet Robinson commented, “A lot of children are alive today because of actions the teachers took.” (Circa Part 10) A total of twenty-six individuals were tragically murdered because why? That answer will never be answered since Lanza committed suicide at the scene as police were on their way, which leaves no closure for the victims’ family and friends. The Newtown, Connecticut shooting caused an increased in protection at schools by implementing new gun laws and changing America’s views about the

December 14, 2012, Newtown, Connecticut. Adam Lanza, 20, used an assault rifle to kill 20-first grade students ages 6 & 7 and 6 staff members in Sandy Hook Elementary, then killed himself. Before the murder he shot and killed his mother at his home. In January, council voted to demolish the home.

I was in sixth grade when the news struck that a gunman had invaded Sandy Hook Elementary school, and I can remember how shocked I was. At the time I had a little sister who was in SK, and I just thought to myself, “What if that had happened here and to her?”. I cannot begin to imagine how it would be

Since the Sandy Hook school shooting, parents have been more cautious about sending their kids to school. They fear their kids will be killed by an intruder. The latest blogs and newspapers classify school shootings and suicides together but I believe they shouldn't. School shootings are done out of vengeance and revenge while suicides are done out of remission and remorse. Parents are living in fear when in reality, we demonstrate trust everyday. According to The Washington Post, there are on average, one school shooting per week as of 2015, but what they don't mention is that most of them are from traumatization from being bullied. If your hold makes other children feel unsafe, your child's safety is also at risk. I believe that the Sandy

Even though I was not there, it made it real by watching what happened that day inside the school and what these children went through. It was hard to hear the people on the phone who were there that day, but it was even harder to see the two shooters on that film.  The two gunmen killed 12 students and one teacher and wounded many others. Then, the two boys turned the gun on themselves. After the shooting was done and over with, it was sad to see the victims talk about what they saw and heard. Students were getting shot right beside them, and they had to watch that student die. One girl said that she had to watch a black boy die because he was black. There was racism going on in this massacre because they killed a student because he was black. This footage was unbearable to watch because of all the violence that was going on. So many families who lost a loved one will forever remember this sad day where they lost their child because of two students getting revenge on bullies. Now, many people are blaming the NRA for allowing children to get their hands on guns. They said that the boys got their guns from gun shows, etc. Because of all the violent acts that have

December 14, 2012 was just a normal day for the residents of Newtown, Connecticut; one being Nicole Hockley. Friday morning, she woke herself up along with her two sons. She got them ready for school, fed them breakfast, and walked them to the bus stop like always. About an hour later after Jake and Dylan had arrived at school, a twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza shot his way into the school killing six educators and twenty children. When Nicole got to the school she found out that Jake was safe, but Dylan had been shot multiple times and died in his teacher’s arms; she too was killed in the attack. For the next two years Nicole and her husband had to watch their son Jake grow up while it was as if Dylan was frozen in time. Nicole is now

When a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook elementary school, my brother narrowly escaped due to the brave actions of a teacher pulling him to safety from the hallway. Our town responded to the tragedy by choosing love, kindness, and taking action to make the world a better place. We say that things will never be the same again, but we are working on a “new normal.” Our own experience was one more reason we opened our home to these kids.

When the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened people were terrified, outraged, and wanted something done. It was such a shocking and uncommon event. However now I feel as if we, the

One of the crimes most terrifying in the history of the United States was the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. This crime occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20 year old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children aged between 6 and 7 years old, as well as six adult staff members. Now my question is, Why a boy of 20 years of age and mental health problem can buy weapons easily to kill all these innocent people? Now we put ourselves to think if this disaster of killings could not have avoided? I know it is late