Anti-Gun Groups Continue to Use Sandy Hook Families Grief to Push Gun Control Agenda :: 08/01/2014

After he was gunned down Dec. 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., his mother, Nicole Hockley, made it her mission to speak out and, by doing so, hopefully reduce the chance some other mother would one day also find herself facing a crowd, clutching a photo of her slain child and fighting back tears.

"Nothing will bring my son back," she said Friday in Allentown. "But I am here so other parents don't have to stand here and feel this way."

Hockley visited the Lehigh Valley to gather support for federal legislation called "Promoting Healthy Minds for Safer Communities."

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, Lehigh County Executive Tom Muller and Allentown police Chief Joel Fitzgerald joined her at an afternoon news conference to push the mental health and domestic violence legislation.

Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter, killed 26 people in the school that day — including 20 young children. Lanza, 20, was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and most likely had other mental illnesses, according to reports. He also had access to guns in his home.

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