It is such a sad Sunday morning for me after I have read this news... No more words that I can express no more Oh god

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The horror wrought by a lone gunman on this close-knit community crystallized Saturday afternoon as the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre were publicly identified.

Among the dead were the educators who hailed as heroes -- the school's principal and psychologist, who didn't hesitate to rush toward the sound of the gunfire, and the first-grade teacher who used her body to shield her tiny charges from the bullets. Six of the victims were adults.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/15/sandy-hook-school-shooting-victims-identified/1771867/

All six adults killed at the school were women. Of the 20 children who were shot to death, eight were boys and 12 were girls. All the children were ages 6 or 7.

The names and birth dates of the victims:

Charlotte Bacon (2/22/06), 6 years old, female

Daniel Barden (9/25/05), 7 years old, male

Rachel Davino (7/17/83), Staff member, 29 years old, female

Olivia Engel (7/18/06), 6 years old, female

Josephine Gay (12/11/05), 7 years old, female

Ana M. Marquez-Greene (4/4/06), 6 years old, female

Dylan Hockley (3/8/06), 6 years old, male

Dawn Hochsprung (6/28/65), Principal, 47 years old, female

Madeleine F. Hsu (7/10/06), 6 years old, female

Catherine V. Hubbard (6/8/06), 6 years old, female

Chase Kowalski (10/31/05), 7 years old, male

Nancy Lanza, 52 years old, female (mother of shooter Adam Lanza)

Jesse Lewis (6/30/06), 6 years old, male

James Mattioli (03/22/06), 6 years old, male

Grace McDonnell (11/4/05), 7 years old, female

Anne Marie Murphy (7/25/60), Staff member, 52 years old, female

Emilie Parker (05/12/06), 6 years old, female

Jack Pinto (05/05/06), 6 years old, male

Noah Pozner (11/20/06), 6 years old, male

Caroline Previdi (9/07/06), 6 years old, female

Jessica Rekos (5/10/06), 6 years old, female

Avielle Richman (11/17/06) 6 years old, female

Lauren Rousseau (June 1982), Staff member, 30 years old, female

Mary Sherlach (2/11/56), Staff member, 56 years old, female

Victoria Soto (11/04/85), Staff member, 27 years old, female

Benjamin Wheeler (09/12/06), 6 years old, male

Allison N. Wyatt (07/03/06), 6 years old, female

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Funny thing was, the shooter was just a nerd in school. God knows what people can do. Imagine shooting those little cute kids. Christmas is just a few weeks away. Rest in peace .

When fire arms is made readily available, this will not be the last case. RIP.

I felt a pang in my heart reading the names and seeing their birth dates.... No words can express their parents pain.

Well, This isn't the first and it won't be the last as well. I feel sad for the unfortunate ones but as long as fire arms are readily available, history will definitely repeat again and again and again....

the us has made it easy for people to buy guns. thats why there are so many shootings going on there. RIP

Just the US? I seem to recall Sweden had a mass shooting recently.
I don't like guns myself, but it is a right written in the US Consitution.
You have mentally unsound people everywhere. They are the ones doing the killing.

"At least 24 Americans every day (8-9,000 a year) are killed by people with guns – and that doesn't count the ones accidentally killed by guns or who commit suicide with a gun. Count them and you can triple that number to over 25,000.

That means the United States is responsible for over 80 percent of all the gun deaths in the 23 richest countries combined."

- Michael Moore

What does it take to have some common sense?

The mainland china version uses knives.. Started recently then many many copy cats. Lots of slashing, but less fatality. In the US, most victims died fr gunshot wounds.

The most recent one is in henan province, 22 children were injured. Injured, no one was killed.

That's the difference. Guns are a lot more effective and efficient at taking lives.