Sandy Hook

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.

A mother whose son was killed at Sandy Hook almost a decade ago has said that she is "re-traumatised" every time another school shooting occurs.

Speaking from the White House on Tuesday evening, President Joe Biden asked: “When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? She said: "I will try to talk them through the unimaginable darkness of this moment. “My heart is broken today,” said Hal Harrell, the school district superintendent. Dylan was found in the arms of his special needs teacher. Where in God’s name is our backbone?” Biden said, adding later, “It’s time to act.” Why do we keep letting this happen?

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.

Victims of the 2012 attack that killed 20 children and six adults condemn lack of progress on gun control.

“On days like today, I am horrified and furious that America has not stopped these deadly attacks on our children,” she wrote. I am transported back to the firehouse that we were brought to after the shooting at our school almost 10 years ago. The sadness and anger are crushing.” Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely.” It was the first time a US gunmaker had been held liable for a mass shooting. My heart is with#RobbElementarySchoolfamilies, faculty and the community.

Katelyn Campbell, a clinical psychologist, shares a solution that helped traumatized children feel calmer after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

So we used language around feeling ‘calm’ or ‘peaceful’ and the kids ran with it. “We didn’t use the language ‘safe’ place because that can be a tough and loaded concept for kids who never feel safe. “(They were the scared ones, but it’s easier to talk about the ‘other kids’).

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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Senator Chris Murphy has begged the Senate for gun reform in the wake of the mass shooting in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

What are we doing? What are we doing? One bill would have closed a loophole for private and online sales. ‘What are we doing? Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this? ‘As the kids run for their lives, we doing nothing.

Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy implored his colleagues to act to combat gun violence hours after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at a primary ...

And that's why we have mass shooting after mass shooting." "There's just not a coincidence that we're the high-income-world's deadliest nation and we have the loosest gun laws. ... We're an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their arms on firearms. If not to solve a problem as existential as this," he added. and said that this latest school shooting occurred just days after a teenager walked into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, to " gun down African American patrons". Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on the Texas elementary school shooting: "What are we doing?

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy begged his colleagues Tuesday, as the latest school shooting unfolded, to pass legislation addressing the nation's gun ...

“But by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement to these killers whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing, shooting after shooting.” The case against Remington, filed in 2015, was closely watched by gun control advocates, gun rights supporters and manufacturers because of its potential to provide a road map for victims of other shootings to sue firearm makers. Tuesday's tragedy in Texas appeared similar to the Sandy Hook shooting, where a 20-year-old man shot his way into the locked school on Dec. 14, 2012, then killed 20 first graders and six adults with an AR-15-type rifle purchased legally by his mother. They’ve said their focus is on preventing future mass shootings by forcing gun companies to be more responsible with their products and how they market them. Both languished in the 50-50 Senate, where Democrats need at least 10 Republican votes to overcome objections from a filibuster. “I hope that more people stand up and demand action and demand change and stop just accepting the tweets of thoughts and prayers. A gutted Sen. Murphy took to the Senate floor Tuesday and demanded that lawmakers accomplish what they failed to do after 20 children, mostly 6 or 7 years old, and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut died on Dec. 14, 2012. "I’m here on this floor to beg — to literally get down on my hands and knees — to beg my colleagues. That’s not going to save lives. This is definitely your time,’” Lafferty said. Find a path forward here. Congress has been unable to pass substantial gun violence legislation since the collapse of a bipartisan Senate effort in the aftermath of that massacre.

Senator Chris Murphy demanded that legislators do what they failed to do after 26 students and teachers were killed in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.

“For the past decade, we have warned all Americans, including elected politicians across the nation, that if a mass shooting can happen in Sandy Hook then it can happen anywhere. “But I’m here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues. “Our heart is breaking for these families.

The shooting - the third deadliest school massacre in US history - came amid a rise in gun violence in the US. Senator Chris Murphy is a Democrat from ...

Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely." This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Senator Chris Murphy is a Democrat from Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook shooting took place in 2012.

The shooting is the second deadliest since Sandy Hook in 2012. The death toll is higher than the one in 2018 in Parkland, Fla. where 17 people were killed. In a ...

This community in Texas will never ever be the same.” We must test our capacity as a nation in this moment to strengthen public safety and health. Sandy Hook will never ever be the same. If they started to get nightmares during the day, reliving stepping over their classmates bodies as they tried to flee the school,” Murphy said. The shooting is the second deadliest since Sandy Hook in 2012. In 2016 he filibustered for 15 hours to get a debate on the measure, but was unsuccessful at securing enough support.