The Rachel Maddow Show   |  February 25, 2013

Activists keep Sandy Hook memory fresh, relevant

Rachel Maddow reports on a Times Square flash mob protest to memorialize the victims of the Sandy Hook gun rampage, continuing the public pressure on elected officials to do something to improve gun safety in America.

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>>> "the new york times" reports that yesterday, shortly after 1:00 p.m . eastern, right in the middle of times square , a group of about 200 people who had just been milling around like ordinary tourists or like ordinary new yorkers, yesterday all at once on some secret signal, the 200 of them all threw their hands into the air at the same time and held their hands above their head, frozen, with no explanation. a long moment passed, and then they all sunk to the ground at the same time. 26 seconds elapsed. 26 seconds to represent the 26 victims killed in the shooting at sandy hook elementary school in december. with the symbolic victims laying on the ground in times square , others drew chalk outlines around their bodies and wrote in the victims' names there has been lat of public pressure since the sandy hook shootings to advance the discussion on gun control and gun violence . this pressure has come in many, many different forms. speeches, marches, protests, and now big flash mobs in times square . tomorrow in illinois we're going to get one of our first tests for how well that public pressure has worked. that story is coming up. also, we've got robert gibbs here on set. stay