Connecticut lawmakers return to work and guns take center stage

Edith Honan
reuters.com
January 8, 2013

At the funeral of one of the 20 children gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school, a grieving mother grabbed state Senator Beth Bye by the shoulders and said: “You’re going to do something, right?”

Bye and Nelba Márquez-Greene, whose daughter Ana, 6, was among the first graders shot dead with six staff members in the December 14 massacre, have known each other for years. Bye had asked the Marquez-Greene family how she could help and the answer was clear: Prevent this from ever happening again.

On Wednesday, nearly four weeks after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School reignited the national debate over gun control and mental health care, the Connecticut state legislature will begin its 2013 session and the Newtown tragedy is expected to loom large.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Tags: constitution, domestic news, gun rights

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