Newtown shooting shocked the world – yet gun control seems further away than ever. The only lawmakers who spoke at the annual vigil to honor gun violence victims were from Connecticut. The gun control protest against the NRA’s number one priority piece of legislation was small and decorous. Starr and a fellow survivor met with one of Frelinghuysen’s staffers and shared their stories as gun violence survivors. Gun control advocates have more recently made the same strategic move to the states, and there they were seeing small victories.

Source: The Guardian December 09, 2017 12:00 UTC