The sister of one of the Newton, Connecticut, school shooting victims is calling on Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) to support new federal gun laws. It was part of a nationwide bus tour featuring families of gun violence victims that stopped in Indianapolis Friday for a rally. It’s called the No More Names tour – a 25 state bus tour urging people to support efforts to end gun violence, calling out members of Congress who voted against recent gun control measures such as universal background checks. Carlee Soto’s sister, Victoria, was a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary who was shot and killed while shielding her students. Soto says she’s hoping to open people’s eyes to the problem of gun violence in America. “I think people see these mass shootings and after a few months start to forget and don’t realize that this is a huge problem and until it touches you personally, you’re not really aware of what’s going on and you don’t really care too much.” She says Coats let down Hoosiers when he voted
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