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    Five years on, we're still waiting for Sandy Hook to change the gun debate

    by The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times Dec 14, 2017 2 minutes

    Five years ago Thursday, Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother in Newtown, Conn., then took two semiautomatic handguns and a semiautomatic rifle from her cache of firearms to massacre 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Of course, people declared at the time, such a tragic, senseless event would be a turning point. Surely a slaughter of innocent children would be too much

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