Sandy Hook Elementary School

Newtown Families: We’ll Keep Fighting for Gun Law

Some families who lost loved ones in December’s massacre at a Connecticut elementary school say they are very disappointed by the Senate’s defeat of expanded background checks for gun sales and vow to continue their fight.

2013/04/21

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., left, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speak to the press about background checks for gun purchases, in the U.S. Capitol building on April 10, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (credit: Allison Shelley/Getty Images)

Manchin: Newtown Families Say Gun Background Check Measure Would Not Have Prevented Shooting

Sen. Joe Manchin reveals that Newtown families told him that the gun background check measure that he co-sponsored with Sen. Pat Toomey would not have prevented the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

2013/04/15

President Barack Obama delivers a speech on gun control at the University of Hartford on April 8, 2013 in West Hartford, Conn. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Obama: Gun Control Legislation ‘Is Not About Me’

With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he’s “determined as ever” to honor their children with tougher laws.

2013/04/09

File photo of President Barack Obama boarding Air Force One. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama To Bring Some Sandy Hook Families On AF1

President Barack Obama is bringing 11 families of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One.

2013/04/08

President Barack Obama speaks while flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and relatives of gun violence victims, in the East Room at the White House, on March 28, 2013 in Washington. (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Obama: People Shouldn’t Get ‘Squishy’ Because Of Time Passed Since Newtown

President Barack Obama says the gun control votes in the Senate next month are the best chance in more than a decade to reduce gun violence.

2013/03/28

MomsRising Protesters Turned Away From NRA Headquarters

On Thursday, three months after the shootings, members attempted to bring 130,000 signatures to the National Rifle Association of America headquarters in Fairfax.

2013/03/14

Connecticut Cyclists Pedal to D.C. in Support of Gun Law Changes

They are biking from Newtown to Washington to send a message.

2013/03/10

Md. Senate Passes Gun-Control Bill

The Maryland Senate has passed a comprehensive gun-control measure.

2013/02/28

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a conference on gun violence at Western Connecticut State University on Feb. 21, 2013 in Danbury, Conn. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Biden: ‘There Are Plenty Of Ways To Protect Yourselves’

Vice President Joe Biden makes an impassioned plea for gun control legislation during a gun control violence conference at a Connecticut university less than 15 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School.

2013/02/21

File photo of an empty classroom. (credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)

Kids’ Suspensions Renew Debate Over Zero Tolerance

In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and robbers. Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she’s going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Massachusetts, a 5-year-old boy attending an after-school program makes a gun out of Legos and points it at other students while “simulating the sound of gunfire,” as one school official put it.

2013/02/18