Murphy Statement On The 13th Anniversary Of The Shooting At Sandy Hook

WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday released a statement commemorating the 13^th anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.

"On the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, I'm thinking of the families and loved ones who experienced an incomprehensible loss that day. Twenty children and six educators were senselessly murdered in a brutal act of gun violence and the community of Newtown was forever changed. Our hearts are heavy today as we remember the lives cut short and think about the young adults those kids never got to grow into. But this anniversary is also a reminder of how far our movement has come and the triumphs we've achieved because so many of these families took their unimaginable grief and turned it into action. Their strength helped build today's anti-gun violence movement and after a decade of struggle, we finally had the power to pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first federal gun safety legislation in thirty years. Since we passed that bill, gun violence rates across the country have plummeted and lives have been saved.

"This is a dark moment for our country and the progress we've made is being threatened, but our movement gets stronger every day and we will keep fighting. We will keep fighting because we owe it to the twenty-six kids and educators we lost at Sandy Hook thirteen years ago, and to all those who have needlessly lost their lives to gun violence in this country."