While what happened in Newtown was tragic, other stories regarding this on Hacker News have been killed already due to the HN Guidelines: (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.