Ten Plus One

 

It was ten years ago yesterday that twenty-six innocents were murdered by a feckless coward at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.  Twenty of the twenty-six were children.  The remaining six were adults who died trying to protect their young charges.  

In the decade since Sandy Hook, there have been 189 shootings at American schools that have resulted in at least one fatality; seventeen of which were categorized as "active shooter situations", which are defined as "when the shooter killed and /or wounded victims, either targeted or random, within the school campus during a continuous episode of violence."  

Last month, the Sandy Hook Memorial opened. 

Ten years.  A lifetime and a blink. 

  

-AK