And Monday marked the third anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza fatally shot his mother, 20 children and six adults before turning the gun on himself. Since the shooting, Congress has failed to pass a single gun control measure, apart from renewing an expiring ban on plastic guns. An NBC News tally finds 555 children under the age of 12 have died from gunshots since the Sandy Hook massacre—that’s the equivalent of one child shooting victim every other day. At a rally outside the National Rifle Association in Virginia, Reverend Jim Atwood was among about 100 protesters to call for gun control.

Rev. Jim Atwood: “We pray that you would give comfort and peace to all those whose broken hearts need mending. We gather as a people who grieve in front of a powerful NRA, whose only response to mass shootings and the murder of children is to ask everyone to get a gun.”