Still, a decade since the attack, and hundreds of mass shootings later, no major federal gun control reforms had passed, including efforts to ban assault weapons, which were used by the gunmen in both Newtown and Uvalde. It was the first time a US gunmaker had been held liable for a mass shooting. In February, the families of Sandy Hook victims also reached a $73m settlement with Remington Arms, the manufacturer of the gun used in the attack. Lynn and Christopher McDonnell, the parents of seven-year-old Grace McDonnell, grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary after learning their daughter was one of 20 schoolchildren and six adults killed when a gunman opened fire inside the school in Newtown, Connecticut The 2012 attack sent shockwaves across the nation and galvanised a push for federal gun control measures.įour months later, it became clear that the momentum was not enough, as watered-down legislation to expand federal background checks for firearm purchases failed in the Republican-controlled Senate.Įfforts were more successful at the state level, with Connecticut expanding a ban on assault weapons, instituting universal background checks, and banning high-capacity magazines. My heart is with #RobbElementarySchool families, faculty and the community. I can’t get my head out of the Sandy Hook firehouse. “It is beyond time to take action,” she tweeted. We have been failed.”Īdded Erica Leslie Lafferty, whose mother, Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung, was fatally shot at the school, “Thoughts and prayers didn’t bring my mother back after she was gunned down in a hallway at #SandyHook”. Rational, loving human beings: I am so damn sorry.
Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose six-year-old Ana Grace Marquez-Greene was killed at Sandy Hook, wrote on Facebook, “Teachers. I’m so sorry those deaths did not change our world.
I am transported back to the firehouse that we were brought to after the shooting at our school almost 10 years ago. #Uvalde I’m sick at what you are going through today. I’m so sorry those deaths did not change our world,” she wrote hours after Tuesday’s attack. “I am transported back to the firehouse that we were brought to after the shooting at our school almost 10 years ago. “I’m sick at what you are going through today,” tweeted Mary Ann Jacob, who was working as a librarian at the school in Newtown when the 20-year-old gunman attacked.
For survivors and victims’ families of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, the attack on Tuesday at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two teachers dead punctuated a decade of grief.Ĭoming just six months before the 10-year anniversary of the Connecticut mass killing, the Texas attack also underscored for survivors turned advocates how little progress had been made in federal gun control reform since a gunman carrying an AR-15 assault weapon entered the Sandy Hook elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults.
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