The Uvalde shooting in Texas brings back heartbreaking memories for Sandy Hook parents.

Newtown, Connecticut, serves as a reminder that the threat of gun violence exists throughout America.

A road passes from the center of town past the pleasant New England homes and across a creek to reach the Sandy Hook Elementary School in a few minutes, set amid forested hills with the tree line accented by white church steeples.

This December marks ten years since a 20-year-old resident shot and killed 26 children and staff members before turning the pistol on himself.

Today, the flag in Newtown at half-mast, a gesture of sympathy from one place to another so deeply damaged by an inexplicable act of brutality.

Nicole Hockley is a Sandy Hook Promise Foundation founding member, and I meet her outside the office on a picnic table in the warm spring weather to talk about the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, over 2,000 miles away.

“All shootings rekindle scars that, every time I believe they’re healing, are torn open again,” she says.

“However, because it is so disturbingly similar to what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it hit closer to home in a manner that I hadn’t imagined, and I fell into shock.”

Dylan, her six-year-old son, was among those killed at Sandy Hook.

She understands that changing the law is an impossible battle, therefore her organization has forced to make a compromise.