10 years after Sandy Hook, one mother is forging through her grief, but every step forward is also a step fraught.
Still, Hensel continues to struggle with how this happened to Jeremy.
"He hid so much from us," Hensel says."And when it was getting harder and harder and harder for him to hide it, he pushed the people closest to him away." "Sirens still get me," she says softly."That's what it sounded like the day of the murders — just nonstop.""I just give thanks for her that I had her for as long as I did. And I always apologized to her that I wasn't there. I say, 'I wasn't there, baby. I'm sorry.'""I actually vomited the day I heard about Uvalde," she says, referring to the Robb Elementary school shooting in Texas that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
Connecticut passed strict new gun control legislation within months of Sandy Hook, but it would take nearly a decade for Congress to pass even modest new federal gun legislation. Signed into law in June, the federal measure expanded background checks for young people seeking to buy a gun, incentivized states to make it easier to take weapons temporarily from people deemed dangerous, and it added dating partners to the list of domestic abusers who can be denied a gun.
"We finally moved that mountain, a mountain of opposition, obstruction and indifference that stood in the way and stopped every effort at gun safety for 30 years in this nation," he said."Now is the time to galvanize this movement, because that's our duty to the families of this nation." "She was such a big presence," Hensel testified, sobbing."How do you how do you negate a presence? How do you do that? How do you do that?""That continual noise of all of the people saying that we faked this and that it never happened" was unbearable, she told jurors."It makes it hard to get out of bed every day. [It's] hard to just push that away."
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