In an interview with Democracy Now!, he noted the ways in which the global arms trade was linked to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
However, as of January 8, 2013, CN has again aired it cut, most likely in response to both the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the Clackamas Town Center shooting.
In 2013, Cockfield was working as Vice President of crisis and issues at public relations firm Edelman New York when he was reported to be representing Peter Lanza, father of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting perpetrator Adam Lanza.
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, officials with the Giles County Public Schools, closed all five district campuses including Narrows High School when a website attempted to connect the community with The Dark Knight Rises and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Besides the 31-round magazine Loughner used in his Glock, Burns cited as examples the 100-round drum allegedly used by James Eagan Holmes in the 2012 Aurora shooting and the 30-round magazine used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
The shooting, along with the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that had occurred just two days before, helped reignite the often-contentious gun control debate in the United States.