Sandy Hook survivors graduate from high school

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Sandy ***** survivors graduate from high school

More than a decade after a mass ********* in a quiet Connecticut suburb, a group of survivors from Sandy ***** Elementary School are graduating from high school.

Twenty students and six staff members were ******* in the ********* on 14 December 2012.

The youngest among them were six years old.

A private ceremony was held on Wednesday evening at Newtown High School, which around 60 survivors attended.

Graduating students spoke of complex emotions surrounding the milestone.

“The shooter actually came into my classroom. So I had to, like, watch all my friends and teachers get *******, and I had to run for my life at six years old,” Emma Ehrens told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.

“Just growing up with having the *****, and the what-ifs of what could have happened if I stayed?” she said. “Because I was, like, I was going to be next.”

Another survivor, Lilly Wasilnak, said: “You wait for this day for your whole life, since you’re in kindergarten. You just can’t wait to graduate. And it felt so far away for such a long time… but I think we can’t forget about that there is a whole chunk of our class missing.”

A number of the survivors have volunteered for **** control groups and several met Vice-President Kamala Harris at the White House last week.

The mass ********* at Sandy ***** Elementary was carried out by a 20-year-old armed with two rifles and a handgun. He ***** from a self-inflicted gunshot as police arrived on the scene.

The US president at the time, Barack Obama, later called it “the single darkest day of my presidency”.

Following the murders, Mr Obama proposed a large raft of new laws designed to curb **** *********.

Although he implemented a series of reforms to the US background check system using executive orders, two major pieces of legislation ******* to pass Congress.

The laws would have banned ******** rifles and instituted background checks on most private **** sales. They had bipartisan support, but most *********** senators along with a number of Democrats voted against the measures.

The Sandy ***** ********* ******** the deadliest ever at a US primary school.

Since the *******, there have been more than 4,200 mass shootings in the ******* States, including several dozen at schools, CBS reported.

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