About a dozen gun enthusiasts yelled “Second Amendment!” and “Do not infringe on our rights!” at Neil Heslin, who called for an assault weapons ban during a legislative hearing.
"That wasn't just a killing, it was a massacre," Heslin said before the Gun Violence Prevention Working Group at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Connecticut. "I still can't see why any civilian, anybody in this room in fact, needs weapons of that sort. You're not going to use them for hunting, even for home protection."
He asked the crowd why assault weapons should not be banned. The crowd answered in shouts. The Connecticut Post put the number of hecklers at "as many as a dozen."
Heslin's son Jesse McCord Lewis was among the 20 children killed in December.
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In his obituary, his family said that the 6-year-old "ran into the hallway to help when he heard the shots."
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