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All The Wiser

52. How one Sandy Hook mom is changing the conversation about school shootings

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.8652 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Scarlett Lewis is the mother of 6 year old Jesse Lewis, one of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in U.S. history. In the years since her son’s tragic murder, Scarlett has dedicated her life to the prevention of school shootings, and her work has reached people all over the world with its insightful, compassionate, and practical messaging, putting front and center the person desperate enough to commit such a heinous crime: a human being in pain.


In this episode, we talk about:


  • What the first moments and days post-shooting were like.
  • The roles that shock and love play during trauma.
  • Returning home after the shooting.
  • The process of forgiveness and healing.
  • How all school shootings are preventable.



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secure. I know that I was in shock and I love shock because, you know, it just, it numbs you a little bit.

1:05.1

And your body is an amazing thing because it really kind of helped me slowly introduce my new reality.

1:15.0

And it, I don't know, I feel like it kind of protected me a little bit in those first few days.

1:23.2

That was Scarlett Lewis, mother of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, talking about what she felt after learning that her son Jesse

1:30.6

had been murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School

1:33.8

in one of the worst mass shootings this country has ever seen.

1:37.9

In the years since losing Jesse,

1:39.9

Scarlett has dedicated her life to the prevention of school shootings,

1:44.3

which puts front and center the pain and helplessness of any person capable of committing such a heinous act.

1:52.0

In her case, Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza.

1:55.6

I think it's very important that we remember that he was a human being and he was a human being in pain.

2:03.7

And that means that that shooting was preventable.

2:07.4

And all school violence, all school shootings are preventable.

2:11.9

100%.

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