Message from Gabby Gifford

Today marks eleven years since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

On this devastating day, twenty innocent children were robbed of the chance to grow up. Six teachers who were simply doing their job never made it home from work.

I wanted to take a moment today to ask you to join me in keeping the families impacted by the tragedy in your hearts. This unfathomable loss is one that we will never, ever forget.

Shortly after the tragedy, I traveled to Newtown to spend time with families grieving an unspeakable loss.

We gathered in a living room filled with parents of some of the children killed in their classrooms, as well as family members of some of the teachers who lost their lives. After talking to every family there that day, tearing up at every picture of the innocent victims who lost their lives, I remember walking to a chair in the corner, collapsing into it and saying, “Enough.”

A few short weeks later, we launched our gun safety organization, then known as Americans for Responsible Solutions. I could have never guessed that ever since that day, we would have built a coalition of millions of people—just like you—committed to our mission to save lives from gun violence.

In the eleven years since the Sandy Hook tragedy, I can tell you confidently that the work we’ve done together has changed hearts, changed minds, and changed laws. But the fight isn’t over yet. We must keep up our work to demand more from our elected officials and get commonsense gun safety legislation passed.