How has America changed since Sandy Hook?
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everyone. I'm Allison Kamarata. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Laura Coates. And this is CNN Tonight, and can I just say that was such a powerful |
| 0:16.0 | documentary. |
| 0:17.0 | It really was, Allison. And the way that there was just so much affirmation of what they |
| 0:23.9 | had done, they did not retreat to a corner. They really, which they would have been entitled |
| 0:28.5 | to. Sure. They were proactive and helpful. Still. Those parents are extraordinary. And |
| 0:33.4 | I've thought about them every single day since those conversations, which was now probably |
| 0:37.9 | two months ago, because of exactly what you're talking about. They were grief-stricken. |
| 0:43.1 | They are grief-stricken. Their grief hasn't really gone away. Maybe some days it's not |
| 0:48.0 | as raw as it was that first year. But they still have taken action. So they've been able |
| 0:53.2 | to in their lives. And I mean, obviously this is a lesson for all of us. Even with grief, |
| 0:58.4 | they've been able to move forward and hold those two things together. And they have made |
| 1:03.1 | remarkable changes, which we're going to talk about, where we are, really with gun violence |
| 1:09.0 | and school shootings in this country. And the stats are startling still. But yet, the |
| 1:13.8 | progress, there is forward motion. And that's something that I think, when you think about |
| 1:17.4 | reflect them 10 years, there is a tendency to almost want to avoid and not talk about |
| 1:23.4 | it, because you want to put your head in the sand and think this doesn't happen here, |
| 1:26.8 | but they refuse and all of our kids are safer. And yet, there's still work to be done. |
| 1:30.7 | Yes. So we're going to talk about all of that. And later in the program, we're going |
| 1:33.2 | to speak to Scarlet Lewis, who you just met in the documentary, her six-year-old son, |
| 1:37.0 | Jesse, who was killed at Sandy Hook. And she has managed to turn her pain into purpose. |
| 1:42.0 | She's going to share her wisdom and advice for how to get through this with Gloria and |
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