Sandy Hook

2022 - 5 - 25

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They thought Sandy Hook would 'wake up' the US. Uvalde school ... (USA TODAY)

Survivors and families of those killed in the Sandy Hook massacre say they're retraumatized by the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

"We need people to act, and we need it to happen now." "If we want to think of ourselves as a life-affirming, life-embracing society, then action must be taken, common sense measures must be taken at the federal level," De La Rosa said. "While this tragedy is ever more significant for our families in Newtown, the focus of this story remains on those who need our support now in Uvalde, Texas," Rodrigue said. The settlement followed several years of litigation with Remington Arms, the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle. He "used to tell his sisters that when they were sleeping at night he would go to his job at a taco factory and make tacos all night," De La Rosa recalled. "I guess it’s something in society we know will happen again, over and over." "But I can tell you with certainty that the repercussions of being in the school on that day still ring today." "They were asking me to describe my mom," Lafferty recalled of authorities’ questions at the firehouse. "I know the unspeakable pain that parents of children killed during Tuesday's Texas school shooting are experiencing right now. That day I sent him to school, and he never came home." Veronique De La Rosa, 55, who lost her 6-year-old son, Noah, in the Sandy Hook shooting, was running errands when she got a notification about the Texas incident on her phone. The shooter himself was probably eight, nine years old," De La Rosa said.

'Unthinkable All Over Again': Mom of Girl Killed at Sandy Hook ... (NBC10 Boston)

Michelle Gay, whose daughter, Joey, was in the first grade when she was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, ...

She knows what this day and the days after are like. The years have passed, and milestones have been missed, but Michele Gay said her daughter has been a driving force. Joey, a first-grader at the time, would have been 17 this year.

Sandy Hook parent explains what Uvalde families need from us right ... (NPR)

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with David Wheeler, father to a 6-year-old who was killed in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, about his reaction ...

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Baltimore-area mother of child killed at Sandy Hook empathizes for ... (wmar2news.com)

Michele Gay was the first person we thought of when the news came out of a mass shooting from inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

“The hardest part was putting my two surviving kids on the Newtown bus to send them to school," Michele Gay said. What do you ask a mother who has been through this? Michele Gay was the first person we thought of when the news came out of a mass shooting from inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Officials said 19 children and two adults were killed in the shooting by an 18-year-old.

Sandy Hook Parents React to Uvalde School Shooting (The New York Times)

I guess it's something in society we know will happen again, over and over,” said a parent who lost a child in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in ...

The Sandy Hook families have won a half dozen defamation lawsuits against conspiracy theorists, as misinformation campaigns around mass shootings and attacks on survivors have become part of the pushback against new gun legislation. Yet there are ways to right the ship.” The National Rifle Association, whose political and financial heft helped ensure the defeat of a package of gun legislation after Sandy Hook, is now a weakened organization. But the political forces that doomed even relatively modest legislation tightening background checks and banning high-capacity gun magazines still hold sway. Because they involve children, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe and now Uvalde stoke anguished debate over gun policy and new legislation. After Parkland, students who survived the shooting built an angry, durable movement.

10 Years After Sandy Hook, Here We Are Again (The Atlantic)

I wish I could tell the people of Uvalde that they will be the last mourners. But in the decade since the Newtown shooting, we've refused to answer the ...

All the freedom of being young, all the beauty of small-town America. But beauty like that, every Newtown child knows, is all too easily shattered. To the question of what it would take to actually change something, we refuse an answer. I wish I could tell the people of Uvalde that they will be the last mourners. Imagine these kids, my son and his teammates—then pan out to the jazz-band noodlers, ceramicists at their wheels, gamers on Discord getting one more level in, kids headed to the pond to drop in a line. That’s the part I would not have the heart to tell the people of Uvalde, Texas, if I could be with them as they process their new reality: Gun violence has a long tail. Our leaders allow guns to enter the shared spaces of our everyday lives.