Sandy Hook Promise Mom Flags Warning Signs for “Gun Violence”

By Robert Farago

Nicole Hockley is the founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a “nonprofit working to end gun-related deaths.” In the intro to Ms. Hockley’s TEDx talk she declares “On December 14, 2012, a mentally unwell young man with unrestricted access to high-powered firearms went to an elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and killed 20 first graders and six educators.” Unrestricted access? Adam Lanza shot his mother in the head and stole her guns. High-powered? As opposed to? You see, the thing is . . .

details matter. Especially if you’re trying to do something to reduce firearms-related deaths and serious injuries. Facts matter. Context matters. When proponents of civil disarmament cite the “seven children a day” stat — adding teenage gang-bangers to the list of the firearms-related fatalities — they are deliberately distorting the facts and ignoring context to promote their agenda. Reducing if not destroying both their legitimacy and the search for ways to reduce the toll.

That said, Ms. Hockley isn’t wrong in her call to the public to recognize warning signs of incipient firearms-related violence and act to prevent its realization.

As we’ve pointed out many times, Adam Lanza was shunned, ignored …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns