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McKinstry: School shooting in Newton, Connecticut is incomprehensible
Photo credit: Newtown Bee/Shannon Hicks
My wife came into the room. She couldn’t speak. She choked back tears.
The best she could do was hold up her laptop: the story read 27 dead, including 18 children who were in kindergarten. They were presumably in the midst of playtime, coloring or learning how to read. Some kids were probably smiling, laughing and goofing around as 5-year-olds should.
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