all. as nomia was saying, president biden has made a heartfelt appeal for america to stand up to the gun lobby , and tighten restrictions, but frankly america is as divided as ever about the stated right to bear arms. our correspondentjohn sudworth reports from newtown, in connecticut, where a decade ago, 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school. the flag s at half mast, a gesture of empathy from one town, one of so many scarred by the tragedy of gun violence. but there s despair here, as well. almost a decade ago, six year old dylan hockley was murdered in his school, along with 25 others. his mother, nicole, set up the sandy hook promise foundation. with little hope of gun control, the focus is on trying to help schools identify potential killers in advance. your thoughts and prayers are meaningless unless there is something substantive behind it that backs it up, and a lot of these politicians,
our correspondentjohn sudworth reports from newtown in connecticut, where a decade ago 20 children and 6 adults were killed in a mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school. the flag s at half mast, a gesture of empathy from one town, one of so many scarred by the tragedy of gun violence. but there s despair here, as well. almost a decade ago, six year old dylan hockley was murdered in his school, along with 25 others. his mum, nicole, set up the sandy hook promise foundation. with little hope of gun control, it focuses on trying to help schools identify potential killers in advance. your thoughts and prayers are meaningless unless there is something substantive behind it that backs it up, and a lot of these politicians, they can do all the thoughts and prayers in the world, but then they don t take any action whatsoever, so their words are meaningless. if you can t act on it, it doesn t matter. the recurrence of school shootings has left no shortage of national despair, too.
but the constitutional right to bear arms remains a deeply divisive topic. our correspondentjohn sudworth reports from newtown in connecticut, where a decade ago 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school. the flag s at half mast, a gesture of empathy from one town, one of so many scarred by the tragedy of gun violence. but there s despair here, as well. almost a decade ago, six year old dylan hockley was murdered in his school, along with 25 others. his mother, nicole, set up the sandy hook promise foundation. with little hope of gun control, the focus is on trying to help schools identify potential killers in advance. your thoughts and prayers are meaningless unless there is something substantive behind it that backs it up, and a lot of these politicians, they can do all the thoughts and prayers in the world, but then they don t take any action whatsoever, so their words are meaningless. if you can t act on it,
we saw it happen again there in uvalde. sam brock outside of robb elementary for us this morning. thank you. joining us now, co-founder and ceo of the sandy hook promise foundation, nicolle hockley. she lost her 6-year-old son dylan in the sandy hook shooting, and carol ann davis, about her experience raising two sons in newtown, connecticut, on day of and in the aftermath of that massacre. thank you for being with us. nicolle, so many of us thought immediately the other day about you and dylan and the other sandy hook families. we hope this would never happen again and yet here we are. first of all, how are you doing? how are the families that you have, this tragic community with, how are people in newtown holding up right now? i don t know about the town of newtown because i ve been very, very focused just on my family and my support network in