The most complete and balanced story so far I’ve found is in Business Insider.

In going through it, I see some points of interest:
(1) Who/what was the mysterious second suspect/shooter: shadow or smoke? Why was someone seen and arrested and then the story changed?
(2) The heroism of some of the teachers: obvious – too bad they were not armed. By the way, I do not consider it “heroism” to hide in a bathroom with your students: it is just that your cowardice was not so total that you didn’t remember at least SOME of your responsibilities.
(3) The possible heroism of the school principal and the school – too bad they were not armed: if the psychologist is not stable and responsible enough to be armed, then why is he or she allowed to be in contact with students? Maybe the same could be said for the principal.
(4) What were the possible causes and influences on the killer’s actions – what is “developmentally disabled” (the story says “autistic” but that is pretty broad) and why was he supposedly not allowed to buy a weapon because of his condition, when he was underage? And what were the impacts of living in a broken family? Obviously his mother, as the first victim, was part of his problem.
(5) Why was there a “welfare check” at the killer’s father’s house? Why not just call? Did the cops expect to find him dead also?
(6) How did he steal the weapon from his mother – who was his first victim, apparently? Is this an excuse to demand ALL weapons be given up either by (a) any relations of a “developmentally disabled” person, or – anyone?
(7) The media goes gaga over an assault rifle that wasn’t even used. Unless it was talking to the killer…
(8) Why did he bother with a “bullet-proof” vest? Did he intend to kill himself, and DID he really kill himself?
(9) Why isn’t there any outrage over the failure of the school to keep a 20-year-0ld, autistic person (even if the son of one of the teachers, who obviously had NOT shown up for work that day) OUT of the school? Where was their security?
(10) The failure of the laws to “prevent” this is obvious: all the mandatory signs were posted but the killer didn’t obey them – was it because he was “developmentally disabled”? Or because lawbreakers break the law?
(11) Does the “something” that must be done, according to Obama, mean adopting the Israeli model and arming teachers and staff and getting rid of the “gun-free zones” that obviously are not? I am pretty certain it does not.
(12) Or does it mean ending the mass incarceration of students – putting children in large numbers (700, 1000, whatever) in well-marked and unprotected targets together with “responsible adults” who are not responsible enough to protect and defend themselves. let alone the children they are in charge of?
(13) What kind of coincidences are we expected to hear about as far as this timing? Elections, new calls for gun control, UN treaties, approaching holidays, sudden upsurges in gun purchases?? All these things can be (and will be) rolled into the analysis by all sides.

I am sure that there are many more questions to ask than this baker’s dozen- and that most of them will NOT be answered. I suspect that other than the killer himself, the person most responsible for this was the very first victim. Well, except that Congress, a series of presidents, the Connecticut legislature and a series of governors, a school board and administration are all responsible for the fact that the precious lives of children (foolishly placed in their hands by parents who refuse to understand the dangers) were unprotected in multiple ways.

We have created a nation of sociopaths and psychopaths, of which this 20-year-old is the latest to show his colors. There are tens of thousands more wandering around out there. And then there are tens or hundreds of thousands of murderous people of other types, from Islamic terrorists hoping for the next Bloody Tuesday to “rogue” cops who want to kill and eat young women or just gun down a jaywalker or taser a woman complaining about a store’s selling policy – to people who want to gun down abortionists or the abortionists themselves!

As society falls apart, the need for people to be able to defend themselves, their families, their friends and neighbors, their students, their employees, their employers, grows daily. As in the case of Columbine, the Aurora theatre, Virginia Tech, Casper College, and now Sandy Hook, the immorality of their actions is the major reason: these people WANTED to kill. Society and their own families may be part of the reason that they committed these immoral acts (including those who killed themselves), but they – even if “developmentally disabled” – are responsible for their actions.

Government, on the other hand, is responsible for creating the conditions (primarily the No-Gun Zones and the prevention of self-defense) that allowed these people to kill and kill and kill. Yet, as usual, government and too much of society refuses to see that, and instead blames the weapons. As the attack on a Chinese school shows, and as the worst attack on American schools shows, guns are not the only tools that can be and ARE used to kill and wound people.