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What Next - The Path to the Sandy Hook Settlement

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4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Last week, the Remington Arms Company reached a $73 million dollar settlement with the families of nine victims killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre—the largest payout by a gun manufacturer in a mass shooting case. 


Federal law protects manufacturers from a broad swath of liability in civilian shootings, so the families’ legal team took an interesting tack: they sued under Connecticut’s consumer protection laws and exposed the reckless way Remington marketed their weapons. 


Guest: @NicoleHockley is co-founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.


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0:00.0

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

0:05.4

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5.

0:08.0

But I think it's just the holiday period, it's just for me, it's the most romantic period.

0:14.2

And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

0:18.8

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:32.4

Nicole Hawkely has had to get really comfortable talking about the worst day of her life.

0:38.8

It's the day her son Dylan was found dead, cradled in the arms of his favorite school

0:42.9

aid.

0:44.1

She was dead too.

0:46.7

Keith were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

0:49.4

It was December 14, 2012.

0:52.5

Nicole calls it 1214.

0:55.5

I don't know if that's how all the families refer to it.

0:58.9

I just know in my family that's how we refer to it as a kind of like 9-11.

1:06.8

And when people say 9-11, you know what they're talking about and I think when you say 1214,

1:12.3

a lot of people know what you're talking about, or if you mention Newtown or Sandy Hook people

1:17.1

go there in their minds immediately.

1:21.5

Part of the reason this tragedy is so well known is because of what Nicole did next.

1:28.2

Within days, she'd co-founded an advocacy organization.

1:31.9

She called it Sandy Hook Promise.

1:34.2

She began lobbying for gun reform.

1:36.6

And then she sued.

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