It’s a year to the day since Kaitlin Roig barricaded herself and 15 first-graders in a bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hiding from a gunman who would go on to kill 26 in an 11-minute rampage.

A visibly infuriated President Barack Obama surrounded himself with tear-stained parents of Connecticut school shooting victims and declared it a “pretty shameful day for Washington” after the Senate rejected a measure designed to make it tougher for criminals to get their hands on guns.