opinion
TRAGEDY SQUARED
I’m fighting for my life, but bad government policy means I have to ask strangers to help me get cancer treatments.
Erica Lafferty is a gun violence survivor whose mom, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, was the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School who was shot and killed 2012. She is a member of the Everytown Survivor Network and a staff member at Everytown for Gun Safety.
I’m fighting for my life, but bad government policy means I have to ask strangers to help me get cancer treatments.
Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, my mother, was the principal who died protecting her students and faculty from a killer with a gun. I will not accept school shootings becoming “normal.”
My mother was the principal of Sandy Hook elementary. I’m sorry my loss inconveniences you, Joe. But you’re the one who’s out of touch.