Presidential Document2022-27597
Day of Remembrance: 10 Years After the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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December 19, 2022
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December 14, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 242 (Monday, December 19, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27597]
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Proclamation 10506 of December 14, 2022
Day of Remembrance: 10 Years After the 2012 Sandy
Hook Elementary School Shooting
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Ten years ago, a lone gunman killed 20 first-graders
and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in
Newtown, Connecticut. Today, those first-graders should
be sitting in eleventh-grade classrooms, planning for
their high school graduation and all the possibilities
ahead. Those educators should be preparing lessons for
new groups of students and enjoying full lives
surrounded by their loved ones. Instead, their desks
are forever empty, their families are left with holes
in their hearts, and our Nation is missing a piece of
its soul.
As we remember and grieve those victims and their
families, we acknowledge the pain that the community of
Newtown continues to endure. That horrific day changed
the lives of every survivor, many of whom still carry
physical and emotional wounds. It forced parents across
America to wonder whether the goodbye hug they gave
their child before school would be the last they ever
have, like it was for the Newtown families. And it has
driven all of us to reexamine our core values and
whether this can be a country that protects the most
innocent.
I believe it can. This summer, I signed into law the
first major bipartisan gun safety legislation in nearly
30 years, which helps to keep firearms away from people
who are a danger to themselves and others. And I have
taken more executive action to reduce gun violence than
any other President by this point in their
Administration. We are cracking down on so-called ghost
guns, rogue gun dealers, and gun traffickers; helping
States implement laws for extreme risk protection
orders; and boosting investments in community
interventions to stop violence. I am also fighting to
ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The
memories of the Newtown victims--and all victims of gun
violence--demand nothing less.
I am optimistic because I have seen the courage and
resolve of the Sandy Hook families. They have suffered
unimaginable loss but have turned their pain into
purpose. For some, that has meant advocating for gun
safety laws to protect other families from experiencing
the same grief. For others, it has meant starting
foundations or programs that honor those they lost.
Working alongside other families of gun violence
victims across America, they have helped shape a new
movement for safety, grounded in love for our children,
unwavering resilience in the face of grief, and a
deeply held dream for a better future.
Today and always, we honor the bright lives lost 10
years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Charlotte
Bacon, Daniel Barden, Rachel D'Avino, Olivia Engel,
Josephine Gay, Dylan Hockley, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung,
Madeleine Hsu, Catherine Hubbard, Chase Kowalski, Jesse
Lewis, Ana M[aacute]rquez-Greene, James Mattioli, Grace
McDonnell, Anne Marie Murphy, Emilie Parker, Jack
Pinto, Noah Pozner, Caroline Previdi, Jessica Rekos,
Avielle Richman, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach,
Victoria Soto, Benjamin Wheeler, Allison Wyatt.
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim
December 14, 2022, a Day of Remembrance: 10 Years After
the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting. Let us
recognize the courage of survivors and families of
victims, who continue working to rebuild their lives,
and let us commit to eradicating gun violence and
helping rebuild communities that have suffered so much.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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