Newtown Remembers Sandy Hook Victims

“It is becoming a society where we feel we need to arm ourselves or be surrounded by guns at all time”, said Kathleen Loughlin from Moms Demand Action.

The mayor, Austin’s Steve Adler, said people on no-fly lists and some people with mental illness should not be able to obtain guns.

A professor at the University of Texas, a board member of Texas Gun Sense and the president of the Austin chapter of the NAACP also joined in exhortations to press for a ban on the sale of military-style assault weapons, comprehensive background checks in gun sales, campus gun bans and other measures meant to reduce gun violence. Both the house and the elementary school where the shooting occurred have been torn down. It remains unclear whether the majority Republican congress would oppose President Obama’s move, which came in response to an Isis-inspired shooting earlier this month in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people.

In fact, 554 kids under the age of 23 have died from gunshots in the three years since the horrific crime, according to an NBC News analysis. Guns in the United States are a $13.5-billion a year industry with 26% of all guns bought by America’s military and 38% bought by federal, state & local law enforcement and civilians. He said that concept was not popular after the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, but the frequency of mass shootings since then has made the idea of having a trained, law-abiding gun owner present more appealing.

She said the group also promotes gun safety and supports limits on where, when and how loaded guns are carried and used in public. “We’re in unchartered territory”, said Newtown Youth and Family Services Director Candice Bohr.

Monday is the first time the anniversary falls on a weekday.

“We think we as a progressive state should have that as a law”.

This 2013 photo shows a memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Gun laws in 15 states and Washington, DC – covering 44 percent of the population – have been strengthened. He says that people of faith can play an important part in the solution by unifying to oppose not only religious extremists, but all shooters. “As we want to emphasis here, the tragedy of gun violence goes across the board, not just in terms of mass shootings, but suicide”, said Bishop Thomas Ely with the Episcopal Church in Vermont.

The video of the Sandy Hook teachers was produced previous year, but had fewer than 3,000 views.

This story has been corrected to change the reference from teachers to educators.