Sandy Hook Shooting Anniversary
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After the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, the shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition. A November 2013 report issued by the Connecticut State Attorney's office concluded that Lanza acted alone and planned his actions, but no evidence collected provided any indication as to why he did so, or why he targeted the school.
It was an otherwise idyllic New England community that had seen one homicide in the 10 years leading up to Lanza’s horrific act. The media descended upon the 28,000-person town that day and left just as quickly to move on to the next disaster — one of the 1,044 other mass shootings (defined as an event in which four or more people are shot) that have followed in Sandy Hook’s wake. As the world moved on, the community has been left to grieve, heal, and pick up the pieces with which it was left.
“Life will never truly be back to normal for people who are impacted by these types of acts of mass violence,” Jamie Aten, co-founder of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College in Illinois, tells Yahoo Health. “There will be a new normal.
The new normal has settled into day-to-day life for the families of Sandy Hook’s victims in different ways. The day after San Bernardino, Calif., couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 co-workers and injured 21, several family members of Sandy Hook victims wrote an op-ed piece in USA Today, in which they described American gun violence as “harrowing monotony.”
Sandy Hook Shooting Anniversary remembering
After the incident in Newtown, people around the country were encouraged to perform 26 acts of kindness to honor the lives of the 26 people who were killed. The idea has endured three years later, with many schools in Connecticut and around the country conducting the 26 acts this month.
Joel and Joanne Bacon, father and mother of Charlotte, their 6-year-old daughter who was killed in the shooting, took kindness advocacy one step further.
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