Some of the recommendations are simple fixes while others may prove harder to enact.
After more than two years, the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission has released its final report to Governor Dannel Malloy.
The 16-member panel has pored over the details of December 14, 2012, trying to figure out why the Sandy Hook tragedy happened in the first place, and pinpointing specific measures that would prevent such a tragedy in the future.
The final report contains 95 policy recommendations for Governor Malloy and other lawmakers to consider. These recommendations cover the areas of school safety, mental health, and law enforcement.
At the presentation of the final report, commission member and former Hartford Police Chief Bernard Sullivan urged anyone that reads the report to keep the victims of Sandy Hook in mind.
"Think of all the things in life they will never have the opportunity for, the education they won't have a chance to get, the high school proms they won't go to, the careers they won't be able to have all because somebody decided that day to kill a whole bunch of people," said Sullivan. "If people think about them when they read the recommendations you'll have a better understanding of why we made the recommendations that we did."
Some of the panel's recommendations are simple fixes, like ensuring that all classrooms in Connecticut can lock from the inside, while others may prove harder to enact, like a ban on any firearm that can shoot more than ten rounds without reloading, and in a crucial budget year, a series of recommendations to improve and coordinate mental health and behavioral health systems statewide.
The Sandy Hook advisory Commission dedicated the report to the 26 people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School and their families.
