Moms Demand Action holds walk urging end to gun violence

“On Monday, the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting that claimed the lives of 20 innocent children and six educators, we’ll stand proud knowing that our president is taking action to keep guns out of the hands of unsafe people”, the organization said in a statement.

“For the first few hours, I cried with the parents as they cried and as they rushed to the school, just thinking about my children and how close to home it was”, she said. The town’s website included a brief mention of an Interfaith Gathering for Prayer and Comfort set for 7 p.m.at a local church.

Reverend Marta Maddy says her biological grandmother was shot and killed by her grandfather.

The superintendent is urging school officials nationwide to review their safety plans, and people to remember Newtown is still healing.

December 16, 2012 – President Obama visits with the relatives of those who were killed.

The noise of the gunshot and breaking glass caught the attention of the school principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach. Lanza killed them both before continuing his rampage. The children who survived are now fourth-graders.

The school was demolished, and a new Sandy Hook school is set to open in the fall of 2016 at the same site. And while it’s unclear what effect stricter laws would have on the sorts of mass shootings that often prompt conversations about gun control, a number of scholars have found evidence that regulating access to firearms can reduce overall levels of gun homicides and suicides. The bill added scores of assault-style weapons to the state’s list of weapons people are banned from possessing and created a registry for unsafe weapons offenders. “Our message is not gun control; it is controlling gun violence”.

Gov. Dannel Malloy announced that all USA and CT flags will fly at half-staff from sunrise to sunset. “People said this time would be different”, said former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was injured during another mass shooting.

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, chairman of House Democrats’ Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, held a hearing Monday to discuss gun control.

“And we pledge to honor the memory of that bad day, three years ago, by never ever giving up in our quest to make our country a safer, kinder place – no matter the obstacles, the setbacks, or the roadblocks we find along the way”. “There is a peace that we put together for that day”.