Newtown Parents Reflect On Orlando Attack

President Barack Obama will visit Orlando tomorrow to mourn the victims of Sunday’s attack on a gay nightclub that left at least 49 people dead. In December 2012, the president visited another American community to honor the dead in another mass shooting: Newtown, Connecticut.

Twenty children and six adult staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown were killed by Adam Lanza on Dec. 14, 2012. Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden, who each lost children in the Newtown attack.

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Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden, founders and managing directors of Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit that works to prevent gun violence against children. Nicole tweets @nicolehockley.

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