Newtown set to mark somber anniversary

Monday marked the three-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Jennifer Longdon, vice president of Arizonans for Gun Safety, talked about the day she and her fiancé were driving in their auto and someone opened fire on them.

Town officials again have not organized any public remembrances because they want the anniversary to be low-key, a tack being taken by the schools.

Monday is the anniversary of the attack in which Adam Lanza killed 20 first-grade children and six educators after shooting his way into the school on the morning of December 14, 2012.

Connolly was joined by the parents of Alison Parker, one of two Roanoke, Virginia, television journalists shot dead by a former station employee during a live broadcast in August, and two survivors of a 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that badly wounded the then U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others. The service will include prayer, readings of sacred texts and moments of silence for everyone to “reflect” or “pray in his or her own way”, according to Newtown religious leaders. One attendee, Bob Parrish, held a sign that read “No Fly No Guns” in reference to Obama’s remark in a recent address to the nation that keeping firearms out of the hands of people on so-caled “no-fly” lists could be part of his plan to reduce American gun violence.

Many of us still remember where we were and what we were doing when we found out.

And he asked: “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?” She talked about how her brother was murdered by a mentally ill man and said, as far as she’s concerned, the politics of gun control in the country has gotten to a point “where it has nothing to do with the Second Amendment anymore”.

“Choosing love is not something that is an afterthought, it really is a conscious choice that we try to make every day”, Crebbin, the church’s senior minister, said.

Despite those studies, gun industry executives have actually admitted that they are making money off of mass shootings, according to the Intercept. “And they said, ‘why are we moving?’ And we said, ‘because we need to find the best hiding place in the school'”. He is writing a book called Sacred Testimony on the narrative of what happened, why and the search for solutions.

The group Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued a statement regarding Monday’s anniversary. “We think about those families”, said Leah Bernstein, spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. The new school on the same site is scheduled to be completed in June and is on budget, Erardi said.