At an event marking the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, former President Barack Obama reflected on what he still considers the worst day he spent in office.
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Two days after the killings, Obama traveled to Newtown to meet with the families of the victims and address the community, which he has said was equally tough. "The closest I came to being cynical was the utter failure of Congress to respond in the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings," he said Tuesday.
"Mark and Nicole told me then that they would not give up — that ending gun violence would be their life's work," Obama said."And because they didn't give up, because they and advocates from all across the country refused to give up, President Biden signed into law just this year the first major piece of federal gun safety legislation in nearly three decades.
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