While her teacher read from The Nutcracker to keep the class calm, Grace Fischer could hear a man in the next room murdering her friends with a semi-automatic rifle. She was six years old.
This summer Fischer turned 18, graduated from high school and moved away from Sandy Hook, her sleepy Connecticut hometown, whose name remains a byword for America’s gun violence problem 12 years on.
But it feels to her that the most momentous landmark is still a few weeks away.
On November 5 she will cast a vote in the presidential election along with eight million other first-timers — peers that make up the “school shooting generation” who reached adulthood in the long shadow of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre and the dozens
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