Sandy Hook Mom Says Inaction of Congress Regarding Gun Laws Insults Memory of Slain Son

SANDY HOOK, CT — Sandy Hook mother of one of the 20 students killed in the mass shooting in December of 2012, Nicole Hockley, says it's a "punch in the gut" that Congress has still done nothing on gun safety laws to prevent another tragedy. Hockley wrote in an open letter that Monday, Oct. 17, 2016 marks 1,403 days since her "beautiful butterfly Dylan" was murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary.

"To think it's been 1,403 days since I last heard Dylan's infectious giggles or wrapped him in a big hug … it kills me," she wrote. She is going on the road this week to help pass important ballot initiatives in Maine, Nevada and Washington to help prevent gun violence.

Hockley is co-founder of Sandy Hook Promise and has been a vocal advocate for common sense solutions to gun safety to prevent more families from feeling the pain she and other Sandy Hook parents and families suffer each and every day.

"An overwhelming majority of Americans support commonsense gun safety reforms like these – and we don't have to wait for Congress to take action. There is no moving on from tragedy – there is only moving forward. And the only way I know how to move forward, another day further from the last time I hugged Dylan, is with the hope for a future when no other parent has to experience the terrible loss of a child to gun violence."

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