Protesters in Delaware County gathered on a busy street Sunday afternoon, demanding stricter gun laws two years after the Sandy Hook school shooting.
Sunday marked the two year anniversary of a massacre in which a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Around 60 people held a candlelight vigil for the victims on Old Sproul Road in Springfield, Pennsylvania Sunday.
During the vigil, the protesters demanded an assault weapons ban and also called for the Pennsylvania statehouse to consider a universal background checks bill.
In Connecticut, Nelba Marquez-Greene, the mother of one of the children, killed spoke about the loss of her daughter. Marquez-Greene asked anyone feeling despair or the desire to commit "a senseless act of violence" to stop and ask for prayer instead and "to know that we love you."
Her husband, saxophonist Jimmy Greene, also spoke and played at the service.
