ANA GRACE MÁRQUEZ-GREENE WAS 6 YEARS OLD when she, along with 19 of her first-grade classmates and six educators, was murdered in the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., 10 years ago this month. But she lives on through her loving parents, Nelba Márquez-Greene and Jimmy Greene; her surviving brother, Isaiah, about to graduate from high school; the family’s work helping survivors of gun violence; and the Ana Grace Academy of the Arts, a K–8 magnet school in Bloomfield, Conn., that just opened this year. “Love wins” has been the mantra of all her family’s efforts.
But in another way, Ana Grace was erased, by journalists and even well-meaning gun-control activists, who seized on the narrative of 20 “white suburban” first graders massacred as proof of how deep America’s gun…