Bereaved say it is ‘beyond time to take action’ on gun control in the wake of the killing of 19 children in Texas
“Thoughts and prayers didn’t bring my mother back after she was gunned down in a hallway at Sandy Hook, she said on Twitter. It is beyond time to take action.”families, faculty and the community. I’m broken.”
Speaking later on CNN, Lafferty said: “These families in that community are walking into hell and there is definitely a network of people out there who have lived it, who are stepping up to support them … But it’s not going to just go away. Not for the families, not for the community. It’s life-changing. It’s devastating. It’s traumatizing, and every single time it happens, it brings it back like it was yesterday.
Nicole Hockley, who set up the lobby group Sandy Hook Promise after her son died in the attack 10 years ago, said she knew the “unspeakable” pain that the parents of the victims were feeling and called on politicians to take action on gun control. “How many children have to die before politicians stop caring as much about their political careers as they do about their constituents and the lives of the children? These shootings are everywhere,”
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