28 dead.
Including the 20-year-old gunman himself and his mother, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, at least 18 children, and others who worked there. On December 14th, my 8-year-old cousin watched his best friend die. Harmless children had their future taken away from them for no reason, and the children who survived had their innocence taken away. Adults had the light of their lives stolen from them, and will have to face going back to an empty house and seeing Christmas gifts they got for their kids that will now never be opened.
How could someone be so cruel?