Sandy Hook mom slams Trump for hosting NRA exec on massacre anniversary

The mother of one of the children who was killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting slammed President Donald Trump after he hosted an NRA top executive at the White House on the massacre's fifth anniversary last Thursday.

Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan was among the 20 children gunned down in the December 2012 shooting, tore into Trump on Facebook for appearing to ignore the five-year anniversary and for inviting NRA vice-president Wayne LaPierre to a party at the White House the same night.

Hockley first criticized White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her actions on the anniversary of the shooting in her lengthy post.

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"For the five-year remembrance, and indeed for every year and every day, most people show compassion and humanity. This year, the White House did not - on two occasions. First, when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked about the Sandy Hook shooting and what the President and his administration are trying to do to prevent similar massacres, Sanders remarked she was unaware of any regulation that could have been put in place to prevent anything," Hockley wrote, however, adding that she forgives Sanders for her "lack of knowledge."

But Hockley said she could not "say the same for President Trump."

“Not only did he ignore the 5-year remembrance completely - not even a single tweet - he slapped us all in the face by having none other than NRA President Wayne LaPierre at his White House Christmas party that night. The appalling lack of humanity and decency has not gone unnoticed,” Hockley continued.

Sanders later confirmed that LaPierre was among those in attendance at the White House Christmas party on Thursday.

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“While they ignorantly partied and remained uninformed on an issue that kills thousands of Americans every year, I was crying myself to sleep. While they got the chance to kiss their children goodnight, I kissed the urn holding my beautiful boy's ashes,” Hockley wrote.

Hockley then signed off, writing, “I would request an apology. But I'm not sure there are any hearts in the White House that would understand why an apology is the least they could do.”

President Trump was endorsed by the NRA in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Top NRA figures, including LaPierre and NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox, also spoke favorably of Trump at the Republican National Convention in May 2016.

The Trump administration has also pushed back against calls for tougher gun laws, with Trump saying that more restrictions might have just led to more casualties in the mass shooting at a south Texas church in November.

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