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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaughter Of Sandy Hook Victim Tells Trump To Denounce Alex Jones
Erica Lafferty lost her mother on Dec. 14, 2012.
The late Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, then principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, was killed when 2o-year-old Adam Lanza stormed into the building and fatally shot 20 children and six staff members, before shooting himself in the head.
That was days after the final Thanksgiving she and her daughter would share.
As Lafferty wrote in USA Today on Friday, This Thanksgiving, I sat at a dinner table with an empty seat. Its the very seat where my mother, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, should be. Smiling, laughing and enjoying a holiday meal with her daughters and grandchildren. . . . My heart and my dinner table reflect the hole in my life that will never be repaired.
Painful as the experience has been, it led Lafferty to her current calling as an advocate for gun safety.
It must feel like salt in an open wound, then, when someone denies that the Sandy Hook massacre ever happened in the first place. But thats exactly what conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a Donald Trump booster, has claimed repeatedly. See for yourself.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/daughter-of-newtown-victim-to-trump-denounce-alex-jones-sandy-hook-denier/ar-AAkQteq?li=BBnb7Kz
The late Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, then principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, was killed when 2o-year-old Adam Lanza stormed into the building and fatally shot 20 children and six staff members, before shooting himself in the head.
That was days after the final Thanksgiving she and her daughter would share.
As Lafferty wrote in USA Today on Friday, This Thanksgiving, I sat at a dinner table with an empty seat. Its the very seat where my mother, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, should be. Smiling, laughing and enjoying a holiday meal with her daughters and grandchildren. . . . My heart and my dinner table reflect the hole in my life that will never be repaired.
Painful as the experience has been, it led Lafferty to her current calling as an advocate for gun safety.
It must feel like salt in an open wound, then, when someone denies that the Sandy Hook massacre ever happened in the first place. But thats exactly what conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, a Donald Trump booster, has claimed repeatedly. See for yourself.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/daughter-of-newtown-victim-to-trump-denounce-alex-jones-sandy-hook-denier/ar-AAkQteq?li=BBnb7Kz
And here's the Op Ed:
This Thanksgiving, I sat at a dinner table with an empty seat. Its the very seat where my mother, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, should be. Smiling, laughing and enjoying a holiday meal with her daughters and grandchildren. Instead, my mom wasnt there because nearly four years ago, she was murdered in Newtown, Conn., along with five of her colleagues and 20 first-graders. That day, as the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School, she died a hero trying to protect her innocent students.
My heart and my dinner table reflect the hole in my life that will never be repaired. And while Ive chosen a path of gun safety advocacy that not everyone agrees with, some opponents of gun violence prevention follow a different, darker path. A fringe movement of Sandy Hook truthers promotes hateful conspiracy theories that the shooting never took place. My Thanksgiving table tells a different story. And so does the reality of the families who had their loved ones ripped out of their arms by senseless gun violence.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/25/donald-trump-sandy-hook-alex-jones-column/94335420/
My heart and my dinner table reflect the hole in my life that will never be repaired. And while Ive chosen a path of gun safety advocacy that not everyone agrees with, some opponents of gun violence prevention follow a different, darker path. A fringe movement of Sandy Hook truthers promotes hateful conspiracy theories that the shooting never took place. My Thanksgiving table tells a different story. And so does the reality of the families who had their loved ones ripped out of their arms by senseless gun violence.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/25/donald-trump-sandy-hook-alex-jones-column/94335420/
Fuck you Alex Jones.
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Daughter Of Sandy Hook Victim Tells Trump To Denounce Alex Jones (Original Post)
Initech
Nov 2016
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JHan
(10,173 posts)1. Trump won't do it because Alex Jones flatters him.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)4. He'll probably make Jones his press secretary
citood
(550 posts)2. Of all the off the wall conspiracies
The Sandy Hook one is probably the worst one.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)5. Jone's new lie about voter fraud is very sad too for our country
citood
(550 posts)6. I'll take your word for it
His site makes the firewall at work go into high gear.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)3. K & R