Mom of Sandy Hook Victim Refuses Gun Massacres As The ‘New Normal’

The quiet, insular community of Sandy Hook was shattered on the morning of December 14, 2012, when Adam Lanza shot his way through a glass window at the front of the elementary school he had attended as a child and proceeded to fire 154 bullets in less than five minutes using an AR-15.

The activists gathered outside the NRA headquarters included survivors from some of the recent US mass shootings, including the parents of Alison Parker, one of two television journalists killed on August 25 by a former employee during a live broadcast, and two survivors of the 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shooting, where US Rep. Gabrielle Gifford (D) was injured.

“We, at Moms Demand Action, support the Second Amendment, while doing everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people or unsafe people and make our community safer”, she said. The Courant described Quint as an advocate for gun control.

Instead, families were channeling their energy into politics: recounting their trauma in a bid to explain why America needs tougher gun safety laws and better mental health programs. We pledge to be more patient, more gentle, more forgiving, to both strangers and those we love. Quint said he reposted it on his Facebook page a few days ago to coincide with the third anniversary of the massacre.

“Three years on, how do we tell them that their Congress hasn’t done anything to prevent what happened to them from happening to other families?”

In Nacogdoches, where the sisters grew up, guns were a routine part of life.

Yvonne Cech, another librarian, said the key to her door wasn’t working, so they chose to put the children into a closet.

Eric Fleegler, a doctor at Boston Children’s Hospital who has studied state gun laws, said he worries that the expansion of gun rights could cause more fights to escalate into deadly confrontations, more people to commit suicide and more kids to die from gun accidents.

Murray said the anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting serves as an opportunity to talk about ending gun violence. Now the organization is nationwide, with four chapters in North Texas. The group started anti-gun violence rallies across the Unites States, including one Sunday in Austin.

“If I were there… if you were there… if anybody here that had a weapon…”

Members of Gun Free UT and Texas Gun Sense joined in solidarity with Moms Demand Action.

“We have a chance to save lives here in Missoula and across the state and across the country and that’s why we’re gonna get this done”, Von Lossberg added.