Ten years ago, on Dec. 14, 2012, the small Newtown, Connecticut, community was forever changed when a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The massacre remains the deadliest mass shooting in a K-12 school in the U.S. The ages of the student victims — all of whom were six or seven — were particularly striking, and there were immediate calls from many to tighten national gun laws. CONTINUED
Megan Brenan, Gallup
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