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The Conversation: My Son Was Shot

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Lucy McBath and Nicole Hockley

03/04/2017 GMT

My Son Was Shot

BBC World Service - The Conversation, My Son Was Shot

Two mothers who have turned their personal tragedies into a fight for change.

Kim Chakanetsa is in New York to meet a mother who lost her son in the Sandy Hook school shooting, and the mother of an African American teenager shot dead for playing loud music.

Two mothers who lost their sons to gun violence meet up with Kim Chakanetsa in New York. This is the first of a month-long series of Conversations with women in the United States, from Alabama to San Francisco.
 
Nicole Hockley's son Dylan was six when an armed man burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, killing 26 children and adults. It remains the deadliest school shooting in US history. Nicole says the fabric of the universe was torn apart that day and she has been trying to repair it ever since. Her organisation Sandy Hook Promise is now spreading school violence prevention programmes nationwide. She says these are "not about the gun" - they are about trying to stop the violence before guns are ever involved.
 
Just a few weeks before the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Lucy McBath's 17-year-old son Jordan Davis was shot dead at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. Jordan was African American and the shooter was a middle-aged white man. Lucy believes race and America's gun laws both played their part in her child's murder, and she now speaks out in his memory. She is faith and outreach leader for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Every Town for Gun Safety.

Image: (L) Lucy McBath and (R) Nicole Hockley
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