In the wake of Sandy Hook massacre, a sense of duty to preve

As the initial shock and horror of the deaths of 20 young children and six female educators at a Newtown elementary school was still fresh in everyone’s mind, Connecticut’s top legislators decided they needed to do something. It took months, but in 2013, they not only did something major — they passed the toughest package of state laws in the country.

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