Jason Adams, right, the former Newtown Middle School teacher charged with bringing a gun to school, said he showed up armed because he and his family had received a barrage of threatening messages from Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists. ( Carol Kaliff / The Associated Press )For 10 years, Jason Adams taught eighth grade science at a middle school just a couple miles from Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. A Newtown, Conn., native, Adams attended Sandy Hook as a boy. So in April, when Adams brought a loaded .45 calibre pistol to his middle school, parents, teachers and administrators were alarmed and confused. For months, his reasons for bringing the pistol to the middle school were a mystery.

Source: thestar September 23, 2016 14:36 UTC