- Portraits of the Hundreds of Children Killed by Guns Since Newtown. A year after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Mother Jones analyzes the subsequent deaths of 194 children ages 12 and under who were reported in news accounts to have died in gun accidents, homicides, and suicides. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/children-killed-guns-after-newtown-portraits 89 comments politics