It has been ten years since the infamous mass shooting.

As of today, it has been ten years since the infamous mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that resulted in the deaths of 20 students and six faculty members. Since that day, the families of the individuals who lost their loves and the community they live in have made it their mission to advocate for improved gun control laws in the United States.

On this solemn anniversary, the families of the Sandy Hook victims reflected on their current progress and call for further action.

“For me, Dylan is still this 6-year-old boy, forever frozen in time,” Nicole Hockley, who lost her son, told AP. “This journey that we’ve been on the last 10 years, it doesn’t feel like a decade and it doesn’t feel like 10 years since I last held my son, either.”

“Jackie and I still have moments where we just kind of look at each other, still wrapping our heads around the fact that our little 7-year-old boy was shot to death in his first grade classroom,” Mark Barden, who lost his son, said of himself and his wife.

Both Hockley and Barden have been major proponents of the Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit activist group that advocates for gun reform. “It’s a tremendous satisfaction and it’s a serious responsibility,” Barden said of the group’s work. “And it’s a gift in a way that we have built something that allows us this mechanism with which to honor our children by saving other children and by protecting other families from having to endure this pain.”