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www.domaniwealth.com to the issue. Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot through a plate-glass window next to the Sandy Hook Elementary School's locked front entrance and gained access to the school. Upon hearing the noise, the principal and school psychologist rushed to investigate and were immediately shot and killed by Lanza, who was armed with an AR15 semiautomatic rifle, two semiautomatic pistols, and dozens of rounds of ammunition. Lanza also shot and wounded two other Sandy Hook staff members.

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He then entered two first-grade classrooms, where he gunned down two teachers and 15 students in one room and two teachers and five students in the other room. The children Lanza murdered, 12 girls and 8 boys, were 6 and 7 years old. Each victim had been shot multiple times. When Lanza heard the police closing in on him, he killed himself in a classroom at approximately 9:40 a.m. The entire massacre lasted less than ten minutes.

The community of Newtown decided to tear down Sandy Hook Elementary School. It was razed in the fall of 2013; a new school was built on the same site.

In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, some, including President Barack Obama, called for a renewed ban on assault weapons and for tighter background checks. Others, among them the National Rifle Association, resisted any gun restrictions as an unacceptable infringement on the Second Amendment. Meanwhile, the shootings are growing in number, as are the victims.

In 2022, a decade after Sandy Hook, there were 51 school shootings in the United States that resulted in injuries or deaths, the most in a single year since Education Week began tracking such incidents in 2018. Prior to 2022, the highest number of school shootings with injuries or deaths was 2021 with 35. There were 10 in 2020, and 24 each in 2019 and 2018. As these statistics show, the problem isn’t going away with thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families alone — it is only getting worse. The gruesome statistics from 2022, as found in an article from Education Week, are as follows:

• 51 School shootings with injuries or deaths

• 140 People killed or injured in a school shooting

• 40 People killed

• 32 Students or other children killed

• 8 School employees or other adults killed

• 100 People injured