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Remembering the First School Shooting and Its Gunwoman

The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Laws Failing To Keep Guns Out Of Hands Of Disturbed," and, "Suspect Had History Of Bizarre Acts."

But the headlines weren't about Stephen Phillip Kazmierczak of the Northern Illinois University shootings in February or Seung-Hui Cho of the Virginia Tech massacre last year.

They were about a 30-year-old former babysitter who shot six students at an elementary school in an affluent Chicago suburb, one of whom died, and another man before killing herself twenty years ago -- and ushering in the era of the school shooting.