Sandy Hook

2022 - 5 - 25

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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.

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.

Echoes of Sandy Hook massacre in Texas primary school shooting (Aljazeera.com)

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.

Psychologist Describes What Helped Traumatized Children Feel ... (Today.com)

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’).

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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Sandy Hook parents, survivors reliving their own nightmares in wake ... (Hartford Courant)

Mary Ann Jacob, a survivor of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, speaks on the steps of the Capitol in Hartford on Wednesday after at least 19 children ...

"Sandy Hook" author Elizabeth Williamson on the Uvalde killings (WYPR)

The New York Times journalist and author reflects on Tuesday's Texas school shooting, and why the nation keeps reliving these tragic outbursts of gun ...

Special rebroadcast: Jeremy Richman — the late father of Sandy ... (WXXI News)

In the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, Jeremy Richman — the late father of Sandy Hook shooting victim, ...

His wife said he “succumbed to the grief” from Avielle’s murder. After her death, Richman and his wife shifted their focus to preventing violence and building compassion through brain research and education. Richman was transparent about his re-traumatization each time there was another mass shooting in this country.

Public Safety, Not Politics: Sandy Hook Survivor Reflects After ... (NBC Connecticut)

For those who lived through Sandy Hook, the details coming out of Texas are all too familiar. Mary Ann Jacob huddled in a closet with eighteen 9-year-olds ...

“A library clerk is a person who puts books away and helps kids find books. She said safety, like background checks and training courses, are an essential part of their ownership. “Their road is just beginning and it’s a lifelong journey that nobody wants to go through. I’m obviously not trained as a police officer, nor should I be and nor should the people who are teaching your kids in school or helping your kids in school be trained to do that," she said. As a mother to two kids who were hiding in Newtown High School texting me, ‘Mom, mom are you okay?’ and not getting an answer. Jacob said she was one of the lucky ones, a library clerk who survived during that devastating day at Sandy Hook a decade ago.

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