Ten years after the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six adults, parents of the victims continue to push for changes.
They were living ordinary and full lives in the small New England town of Newtown, Connecticut, unprepared for the devastation that would unfold and occupy the rest of their days.
A month after the shooting, Mark Barden, Nicole Hockley and other parents who lost children that day launched Sandy Hook Promise, an organization dedicated to protecting children from gun violence. Barden, Hockley and other Sandy Hook families found a sympathetic partner in John McKinney, their state senator and the highest-ranking Republican in Connecticut politics at the time.
Since 2013, Connecticut is the most populous state without a mass shooting of four or more fatalities, according to a CNN analysis of the Gun Violence Archive.The Sandy Hook Promise parents set their sights on Washington, DC, to see if their home state's success could be replicated on the federal level.
Most Republican senators and five Democrats saw things differently, however, and the bill fell six votes short of the threshold needed to break a filibuster. "100% of school shooters give off warning signs before they carry that out," Barden said. "What if that person giving off those warning signs were surrounded by people who understood how to look for those warning signs, and then had the training and the tools to actually do something?"
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a leading voice for gun reform, has known Barden's commitment since he walked off the Senate floor following the universal background check vote in 2013. In May, another young man armed with an assault-style rifle murdered children in another elementary school, this time in Uvalde, Texas. Once again, the families consoled the new members of a lifelong club as they grappled with their own frustration and grief.But this time, the "social change movement" was stronger, the gun lobby was weaker and something shook loose.
"I'm very much looking forward to understanding what was going on behind the scenes, underneath the veil," said Barden who, along with the other families party to the suit, plans to release the documents in early 2023.
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