It's been five years since a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. To mark the tragedy's anniversary, CNN anchor Jake Tapper in 2015 memorialized the victims on Twitter, posting the names and pictures of those killed on December 14, 2012:
Noah Pozner was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/Q9jJnHazVc
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Charlotte Bacon was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/2lZE5RvxoF
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Daniel Barden was 7#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/2cdOidoE6f
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Jack Pinto was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/nfVmOaHvwB
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Jesse Lewis was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/Jlmbw5KLKz
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Grace McDonnell was 7#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/jrWY1FGHwY
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Dylan Hockley was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/99qocqrgLr
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Jessica Rekos was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/eBCl9ZUfJE
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Ana Marquez-Greene was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/hAA01jlZvR
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Madeleine Hsu was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/NWEBABwhqM
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Olivia Engel was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/sFgMW1pl4D
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
James Mattioli was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/L4zHhmAfCu
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Chase Kowalski was 7#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/p1QSh2d3oq
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Catherine Hubbard was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/9dEBtKyVmV
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Josephine Gay was 7#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/f8gLmbRHXA
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Emilie Parker was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/1fNC7xMB7n
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Caroline Previdi was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/MhZGeoDS3W
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Avielle Richman was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/ZRACOukNn6
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Benjamin Wheeler was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/qeytzTxQJu
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Allison Wyatt was 6#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/YS0ga39Pee
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
1st grade teacher Vicki Soto was 27#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/8J8oaD3tAU
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
School psychologist Mary Sherlach ran towards the shooter to try to protect the kids#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/KkoYGSfTyR
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
#SandyHook principal Dawn Hochsprung pic.twitter.com/IxvvO3MYBr
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
Rachel D'Avino, 29, was a behavioral specialist#SandyHook pic.twitter.com/z98BtpuaVi
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
#SandyHook teacher Lauren Rousseau was 30 pic.twitter.com/MlLBL1dywT
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
#SandyHook Special Ed teacher Anne Marie Murphy pic.twitter.com/VO9nTB4w2q
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 14, 2015
The tweets are heartbreaking, but they also offer a reminder that Sandy Hook was supposed to be the mass shooting so horrifying that it finally convinced America to do something about its extraordinary levels of gun violence. Yet even though the research has pretty definitively linked America's easy access to guns and abundance of firearms to more gun violence, nothing was done on the federal level. And since Sandy Hook, there have been more than 1,500 shootings in which four or more people were injured or killed.
