Democrats Remember Sandy Hook Shooting and Renew Calls for Gun Reform
Source: Newsweek
Dec 14, 2025 at 04:32 PM EST
As many remember the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, in which a shooter killed 20 children and six adults on scene, as well as himself and his mother, Democrats are renewing calls for gun reform.
The posts come amid news of two horrific mass shootings this weekend, one at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where two people died and another at a Hannukah celebration in Sydney that killed 16 people, and dozens more injured.
Why It Matters
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, marking the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. elementary school, while the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022 is the second deadliest to date.
The Sandy Hook shooting sparked debates about gun control, with significant focus on the AR-15 rifle that had been used, and questions over the need for semi-automatic rifles to be legally available. Some Democrats have pushed for tighter gun laws, while many Republicans oppose new restrictions and emphasize that gun ownership is protected by the Second Amendment.
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There are a couple big organizations that have been tracking for some time, including -
GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE
The Violence Project
I know in the past, data from those 2 have been cited on DU (and there have unfortunately been WAY WAY too many mass shootings 
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We've become numb to this shit, it's just a part of everyday life in 'Murica.
We banned lawn darts because kids were getting hurt. We insisted that cars have seat belts and improved safety standards because people were getting hurt and killed. But we can't do a single motherfucking thing to reign in gun violence because some judges many years ago misinterpreted the 2nd Amendment (that pesky little part about a "well regulated militia"
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My sister was killed with a gun (domestic violence) and I refuse to sit down, shut up, and forget it.
and the GOP let it sunset or repealed it.
James Brady worked tirelessly to break his own party (one of the few who suffered the fate of gun violence and worked to do something about it versus someone like the loon Scalise, who was on his deathbed, and who then semi-recovered only to double down on letting these guns run rampant).
Remembering James Brady: "A Legend at the White House"
And Diane Feinsten did similarly as a follow-up -
How the Senate—Once, Long Ago—Banned Assault Weapons
And I am sorry to hear about your sister. It's insane that it has gone on this long.
The only "positive" was that I saw an article over the weekend, that was outside of LBN because it was purportedly published during a fusillade of a Friday dump of news, and it was about the NRA - NRA forced to sell off its investments to pay off bills as membership declines, report says
NOTUS had that scoop - The NRA Is Selling Off Its Investments to Make Ends Meet