| | '''Newtown''', [[Connecticut]], is a small, wealthy [[town]] in the greater [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] metropolitan area. It was established in 1711 and consists of 38,644 acres (60.38 square miles). That space is divided into five smaller regions, [[Borough]], [[Sandy Hook]], Hawleyville, Botsford, and Dodgingtown.<ref>http://www.newtown-ct.gov/welcome-town-newtown</ref> Newtown, and specifically the Sandy Hook neighborhood gained a great deal of attention when 26 people were there massacred on December 14, 2012, by 20-year-old Adam Lanza. Twenty of the victims were young children, gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School where Lanza's mother volunteered. Adam Lanza stole four guns<ref>http://www.gunfaq.org/2013/03/was-the-weapon-used-at-sandy-hook-an-ar-15/</ref> from his mother, then shot and killed her with one of them. The massacre was used by [[liberal]]s to push for [[gun control]]. | | '''Newtown''', [[Connecticut]], is a small, wealthy [[town]] in the greater [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] metropolitan area. It was established in 1711 and consists of 38,644 acres (60.38 square miles). That space is divided into five smaller regions, [[Borough]], [[Sandy Hook]], Hawleyville, Botsford, and Dodgingtown.<ref>http://www.newtown-ct.gov/welcome-town-newtown</ref> Newtown, and specifically the Sandy Hook neighborhood gained a great deal of attention when 26 people were there massacred on December 14, 2012, by 20-year-old Adam Lanza. Twenty of the victims were young children, gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School where Lanza's mother volunteered. Adam Lanza stole four guns<ref>http://www.gunfaq.org/2013/03/was-the-weapon-used-at-sandy-hook-an-ar-15/</ref> from his mother, then shot and killed her with one of them. The massacre was used by [[liberal]]s to push for [[gun control]]. |