Sandy Hook School Shooting: The Nuclear Winter of Misinformation

I recently picked up Newtown: An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak 
There are two books on this tragedy (that I have found thus far) and I believe this is the best one due to the absence of political debates i.e. gun control. The author paints the details of the day without blush or shame. He also captures the events leading up to it, without interjecting his own opiniona. If you are ever curious about what truly happened that day I highly recommend reading this book.

According to the Safe School Initiative there was another shooting that occurred on this day twenty-four years ago in Virginia Beach. At Atlantic Shores Christian School, a student by the name Nicholas Elliot,  who was 16 years old at the time, brought a Cobray M-11 semi-automatic pistol to school.   Where he shot two teachers killing one and critically wounding another. After he was arrested they found three Molotov cocktails in Elliott’s locker and the makings of a pipe bomb in his book bag. Elliot was sentenced to life for murdering Farley and 20 years for wounding Marino. (Source:http://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/17/us/student-with-pistol-kills-one-teacher-and-injures-another.html

 There is a book on this shooting: Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun by Erik Larson.

I haven't read the book myself, what little I have read about it suggests that this book is pro-gun control. A political view which like its opposite doesn't necessary report all the facts, so readers beware. 

I have also read the official report by the State Attorney of Connecticut, which had left me with a ton of questions.

First and foremost what kind of monster kills innocent first and second graders?! Naturally the brutality of such a crime is too much for the average mind to imagine. Thus the average individual has to make sense of it and thus they conclude its a conspiracy. 
I confess I was a skeptic an thus partially in this crowd due to the inconsistencies that  I thought I perceived in the official report and in the TV interviews with the victims families, among other things, that when forced together  suggested that this tragedy was a ruse for the proliferation of gun control.

But after reading Newtown: An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak, I can say that I am more angry by those that cry conspiracy  then I am by Adam's actions! Honestly it is an intolerable insult to these grieving families who lost their child only eleven days before Christmas. As in my studies of Columbine I have found that for certain families, time stands still and they are frozen in the horrors of that day.
According to Lysiak: Four policemen in full uniform crumbled into tears outside of one of them rooms at the sight of the massacre. There was almost two weeks of funerals some at the same time, most were right after the other in the same church. This tragedy was very real and remains so to these families and the community at large.

 Two other things I found even more upsetting:

W hen the families were gathering at the firehouse to pick up their kids, a man in a black trench coat came and starting talking to some of the kids. The man was tackled to the ground by some of the parents and held for questioning by police and then escorted off the premises.

Worse yet some of the funerals received death threats from pranksters, as if the community hadn't had enough!

Who was Adam Lanza?

 Every one whom I have talked to about Adam Lanza wants to label him as a "monster", "a maniac", etc. Honestly that would be a comfort if he was any of those things because it would be case-closed. HOWEVER, none of the evidence that I have found so far seems to support any of these theories. According to the book Newtown, former FBI agent, Mary Ellen O"Toole believes "Adam Lanza displayed clear psychopathic traits." Yet he wasn't out of touch with reality as all of this was premeditated according to the evidence at both crime scenes. 
There are two conflicting problems with premeditation as required for a cold-calculating psychopath. 1.) There is possible evidence to suggest that his original target was the high school. As "supposedly" his car had been caught on a security camera driving around the high school parking lot. 2.)  Adam hesitated when he walked up to the front door of Sandy Hook. If this shooting was as premeditated as suggested, why would Adam go to the high school first and then hesitated when he arrived the elementary school?
The ambiguity of facts and  limited evidence available to the public mixed in with the emotional, and political fallout of this tragedy has created a nuclear winter of misinformation. The like I am determined to shift through in order to discover what drove this man to commit such an atrocity. 

My ultimate hope is that in answering this question I may get one step closer to a solution to Targeted School Violence. The solution which I hope to begin discussing within my next post.