Three years later: States expanded gun rights after Sandy Hook massacre

As the sun set in downtown Phoenix Sunday evening, at least 200 people crowded around the Release the Fear sculpture at the corner of Roosevelt Street and Central Avenue for an anti-gun violence demonstration.

Words of advice that were made by Braden and other speakers at the vigil were to support not only victims of gun violence, but also lawmakers who have taken a stand on this issue.

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

Thompson convened the hearing at the state Capitol as chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, noting that Congress has had 25 moments of silence but has not approved any gun safety bills since a lone gunman killed 20 children and six adults at the school in Newtown, Conn. But thanks to stagnant action in gun control legislation, children are now dying from gun violence every other day.

“Just like the person whose driving a auto that drives past us right now has to register that vehicle and show they’re competent to drive it, we should have at least that much with a deadly, lethal item like a gun”, he said.

The marchers believe closing the loophole in background checks is the first step to saving lives.

Hockley told me this is the first year since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre that she and her family are picking out a tree, making new decorations and hopefully new Christmas memories.

He committed suicide as police closed in.

Bob Parrish: Keeping guns out of the hands of people on no-fly lists “is a no-brainer”.

Braden said that this past week, the group from South Carolina held a launch at the EAME church where they held banners that said, “Gun Sense South Carolina”, and “Saving Lives, Preserving Rights”.

“I wish the gun hadn’t been there”, she said.

As they carried their signs saying “We Can End Gun Violence”, one heckler driving by shouted, “I’m gonna go get a weapon!”

Gun supporters say Obama’s measures would not have prevented the attack and would have punished law-abiding owners.

There were 38 shootings at schools nationwide during 2013, 60 last year and 63 so far this year.

“Legislate – not taking away guns, not eliminating in any way the second amendment – simply responding to what is a public health problem, a plague”, said Rabbi Joshua Chasan with Ohavi Zedek Synagogue in Burlington. “States have prohibited authorities from seizing guns during emergencies, moved to ban the use of taxpayer funding for government gun buyback programs and banned the destruction of firearms seized by law enforcement”, according to the AP.

He said criminals will not abide by new gun control laws.