![]() ![]() I’ve thought a lot about what Rob Wilcox, the deputy director of the White House gun policy office, said to me a couple of weeks ago - that the trauma lasts longer than a news cycle. Sometimes it feels like a lifetime ago, literally, and other times it feels like I’m still wrestling with the notion that Daniel is actually gone. ![]() This level of trauma has knocked time out of whack for me. What has that passage of time been like for you as a parent? It’s so hard to believe that it’s been 11 years. This conversation has been edited for length. ![]() Barden, the co-founder and CEO of the Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund, talked about how he’s processed the loss, and how he measures progress on gun violence. West Wing Playbook called MARK BARDEN, who lost his 7-year-old son, Daniel. “It is a national tragedy that over a decade later our nation’s gun violence epidemic is still not solved.” “We should not have to live like this,” Biden said in a statement this morning. Those first-graders would be high school seniors this year. The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School 11 years ago today left 20 kids and six educators dead. President JOE BIDEN called it the day the “soul of the nation” was “pierced forever.” Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Eli | Email Lauren Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. ![]()
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