After shooting his mother four times in the head, Adam Lanza, 20, killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., before shooting himself. One of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, the tragedy Dec. 14, 2012, horrified a nation. But it did more than that.
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