VIDEO: Mother of Newton, CT Shooting Victim Talks Gun Control on CBS
Apr. 12, 2013
Nicole Hockley, mother of Dylan Hockley, a six-year-old boy who was killed in the Newtown, Conn., shootings, said fighting for gun control and other issues is now her life, in an interview broadcast live, today, April 12, 2013, on "CBS THIS MORNING" (7:00-9:00 AM) on the CBS Television Network. Watch the appearance in full below.
"I've never done anything remotely political before or activism or lobbying, I find it quite bizarre when I'm called a lobbyist," Hockley told co-hosts Charlie Rose, Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King. "But yes I will be back. None of us are going anywhere."
Hockley said that she wants people to focus on the lives of the individual victims and not on gun violence statistics. "My son is not a number," she said. "His name was Dylan, and it's important that people remember that."
Excerpts from the interview are below.
ROSE: Nicole Hockley is one of the Newtown parents who went to Washington this week to lobby lawmakers. Her six-year-old son Dylan died in the Sandy Hook shootings. She introduced President Obama at Monday's gun control rally in Hartford. Good morning. How difficult has this been for you to go and have to tell the story?
HOCKLEY: This has been a difficult story to tell. It's difficult every day since Dylan was taken from me. But it's an important story to tell. And that's why myself and the other families continue to tell it. Their voices need to be heard and people need to understand the loss that we have as well as all the other losses from gun violence across the country.
ROSE: And you're reassured that you're making a difference? Because that's what they're saying about your presence.
HOCKLEY: I really hope we are making a difference. I can't have this be a senseless tragedy, or all the other deaths be a senseless tragedy. This has to make a change. This is the time for change to happen. And anything that we can do to make that change happen is what all of us will do.
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