Sunday will mark 13 years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20 children and six staff members were killed.
Survivors, families and lawmakers gathered in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to honor the lives lost and continue calls for action to end gun violence.
“It took something from the ones who lived through it, too”
A Newtown High School graduate named Joshua spoke on behalf of his brother, who survived the horror inside Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14, 2012.
“He was a first grader, a child, who should’ve been learning to read, making friends and drawing pictures, not fighting for his life,” he said…