Newtown 示すs 大虐殺 周年記念日 with reflection
A 深く，強烈に scarred US town lowered 旗s to half mast and 勧めるd 静かな reflection on the two-year 周年記念日 Sunday of a school 大虐殺 that left 20 children and six adults dead.
公式の／役人s in traumatised Newtown, Connecticut said a public 儀式 would not be held, but instead asked people to 示す the fateful day with personal reflection and remembrance.
On December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza 発射 his mother and then 嵐／襲撃するd Sandy Hook Elementary School, spraying it with 弾丸s before turning the gun on himself.
A police officer stands outside of the 入り口 to the Sandy Hook School on December 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut ?Spencer Platt (Getty/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
The 集まり 狙撃 horrified the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and tr iggered 激しい 審議 about America's 議論の的になる gun 法律s.
Photos of the 20 cherub-直面するd youngsters 削減（する） 負かす／撃墜する before their lives had 適切に begun 循環させるd on social マスコミ Sunday, where 弔慰s and 祈りs 注ぐd in.
School 公式の／役人s said the two years since the "awful" events were characterised by "days of joyful hope, and 時折の 下落するs of despair."
"There is no escape from the realisation that we are where we are because of the horrible loss of lives that occurred at the school on that fateful day," a 声明 from 地元の 公式の／役人s said.
Several 国会議員s in Washington 新たにするd calls for gun-法律 改革（する）, and 株d 弔慰s with the families of those killed.
"The 悲劇 at Sandy Hook Elementary School is almost unspeakable. Six- and seven-year-old children taken from their families and 勇敢な educators who died 保護するing the children in their care," said 上院議員 大多数 leader Harry Reid.
"I stand with the families of Newtown and the 広大な 大多数 of Americans who believe there should be background checks that help keep 武器s out of the 手渡すs of dangerous 犯罪のs and the mentally ill."
Connecticut Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro remembered the "20 little angels and their six 勇敢に立ち向かう educators" that were gunned 負かす／撃墜する, and slammed 議会 inaction on gun-法律 改革（する）.
"The 欠如（する） of congressional 活動／戦闘 is shameful, and I will keep fighting until we make 不正に needed changes, but this 周年記念日 is a time to 焦点（を合わせる） on the families," she said.
Newtown continues to 焦点（を合わせる） on 再構築するing.
A new Sandy Hook Elementary School will open in 2016, and a 永久の 記念の is bei ng planned.
