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    One year ago, on a clear day in December, Adam Lanza walked in to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire. Eleven minutes later, 26 people – including 20 children – were dead. The community, a tight-knit neighborhood, was in shock, left to mourn a future that would never be for their kids, their teachers and principal. Today, many questions are still left unanswered. While the incident report has been released – as have the 911 tapes – families and authorities affected by the tragedy are no closer to preventing further school shootings. In fact, 26 more such incidents have happened since, and the gun control battle has intensified on both sides. Here are some of the new leaders of the debate. Complete story at http://www.citybiz.com/hartford/2013/12/12/december-14-2013-newtown-revisited/

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    One year ago, on a clear day in December, Adam Lanza walked in to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire. Eleven minutes later, 26 people – including 20 children – were dead. The community, a tight-knit neighborhood, was in shock, left to mourn a future that would never be for their kids, their teachers and principal. Today, many questions are still left unanswered. While the incident report has been released – as have the 911 tapes – families and authorities affected by the tragedy are no closer to preventing further school shootings. In fact, 26 more such incidents have happened since, and the gun control battle has intensified on both sides. Here are some of the new leaders of the debate. Complete story at http://www.citybiz.com/hartford/2013/12/12/december-14-2013-newtown-revisited/

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    One year ago, on a clear day in December, Adam Lanza walked in to the Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire. Eleven minutes later, 26 people – including 20 children – were dead. The community, a tight-knit neighborhood, was in shock, left to mourn a future that would never be for their kids, their teachers and principal. Today, many questions are still left unanswered. While the incident report has been released – as have the 911 tapes – families and authorities affected by the tragedy are no closer to preventing further school shootings. In fact, 26 more such incidents have happened since, and the gun control battle has intensified on both sides. Here are some of the new leaders of the debate. Complete story at http://www.citybiz.com/hartford/2013/12/12/december-14-2013-newtown-revisited/

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    Newtown,!

    Conn.
    Sandy Hook 1 year later

    7 who emerged from tragedy

    A CityBiz report

    It was hardly a surprise when Pat Llodra appeared on the WFSB Sunday morning talk show Face the State on Dec. 1 and made a pointed plea to the media to stay away from Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14. Thats the anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Pat Llodra is the First Selectman of Newtown, a mostly anonymous leader until she became the official voice of the grieving after the Sandy Hook shooting last year. Whenever there is news regarding the Sandy Hook shooting, Llodra is the one who often responds for those in town.

    Pat Llodra

    Mark Barden

    Many of the families of lost children at Sandy Hook have chosen to remain out of public view as they grieve. But some have stepped forward to take an active role in response to their loss. Mark Barden is one of them. Barden lost his son, Daniel, 6, in the Sandy Hook shooting. And since then he has worked to promote gun control. It was Mark Barden who introduced President Obama in the Rose Garden after the U.S. Senate voted to block expanded background checks for gun sales.

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    Dave Ackert

    Shortly after the shooting, Sandy Hook resident Dave Ackert founded the Newtown Action Alliance. The NAA works to push for safer gun laws and cultural change. Members went to Washington D.C. to lobby for federal gun control measures and to Hartford to push for changes to state law.

    As a country, weve been through this too many times


    - President Obama

    Global editor of Reuters Breakingviews.com and Newtown native, Cox is co-founder of the Sandy Hook Promise. The SHP is a non-profit led by community members and some parents and spouses of those lost in Sandy Hook. Its goal Rob Cox is to prevent causes of gun violence through education and empowering parents through Parent Together, which seeks to find common ground within both sides of the gun control argument. Cox has written for USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

    Stephen Sedensky
    Sedensky is the states attorney responsible for the investigative report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and was criticized for the delay in issuing a report. His efforts to prevent the release of the 911 recordings from that morning drew criticism from those who believe he tried to circumvent Freedom of Information public records requirements.

    Scott Wilson

    Wilson is president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights advocacy group based in Groton, Conn. Wilson has been a vocal opponent of gun-control laws that have been pushed since Sandy Hook. His CCDL joined with the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen to file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new state law in response to the Sandy Hook shooting that bans certain guns and magazines in Connecticut.

    Momsdemandaction.org! Moms Demand Action is marking the anniversary with its No More Silence campaign to honor the lives lost and to show its resolve never to be silent again about the epidemic of gun violence.

    Monte Frank

    Monte Frank is a Sandy Hook resident, Danbury attorney and board member of the Newtown Action Alliance. He has provided pro bono legal representation to Newtown families of victims as well and been a staunch supporter of gun control laws.

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