A Sandy Hook Parent Speaks
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The school shooting in Uvalde, Texas was the deadliest since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut nearly a decade ago. Today, we’re re-airing an interview with a parent who lost her child at Sandy Hook and went on to channel her grief into activism. In February, she and a group of other Sandy Hook families announced a $73 million settlement with Remington Arms, forcing the gunmaker to accept responsibility for marketing its weapons to disaffected young men.
Guest: Nicole Hockley, co-founder and CEO of the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.
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| 0:37.0 | What do you say when your country's leaders seem completely paralyzed by outbursts of violence |
| 0:43.2 | that strike down children at school, shoppers, and a grocery store, worshipers, and a church? |
| 0:51.2 | That's what I ask myself after hearing about the shooting at an elementary school |
| 0:55.2 | in Yovalday, Texas this week. The gunman killed 21 people, most of them kids, and having hosted |
| 1:02.9 | the show for nearly four years, I can tell you there isn't a whole lot of productive conversation |
| 1:09.2 | left to have right now. There's just morning. Morning for kids like Xavier Lopez, a 10-year-old |
| 1:16.1 | who just made the honor roll before he was killed. For Jose Flores, who loved baseball, |
| 1:22.6 | and loved Rob Elementary School too, morning for Annabelle Rodriguez. She was in the same |
| 1:28.8 | classes her cousin. They were both murdered. The shooting in which these kids died was the |
| 1:35.6 | deadliest since the massacre at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut nearly a decade ago. |
| 1:41.5 | Maybe the only people who understand the tremendous grief the Yovalday families are feeling |
| 1:47.9 | are the Sandy Hook parents. So today you're going to hear from one of them. Her name's Nicole |
| 1:54.0 | Hawkeley. She lost her son Dylan. I spoke to Nicole back in February about how her world has changed |
| 2:01.2 | in the years since Dylan died. She'd just settled a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the AR-15 |
| 2:07.7 | that was used by the Newtown shooter. My team and I, we felt something like hope when we |
| 2:13.5 | listened to Nicole. Maybe you will too. Here's the show. Nicole Hawkeley has had to get really |
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