Newtown mother: Let tragedy be "event that turned the tide"

January 30, 2013 8:40 PM

Scarlet Lewis, the mother of a six-year-old killed in the Sandy Hook shootings, testifies before the Connecticut state legislature in a forum addressing solutions to gun violence.

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