This Mother's Day Weekend, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America hosted events across the United States in honor of mothers and to support the Mother's Bill of Rights. … [Read more...]
May 8, 2013 By
Keep Your Flowers on Mother’s Day, I Want My Rights
This Mother's Day, eight American mothers will wake up having lost a child to gun violence the day before. Another eight mothers will go to bed having lost their children to gun violence on Mother's Day. by Shannon Watts, Huffington Post This Mother's Day, eight American mothers will wake up having lost a child to gun violence the day before. Another eight mothers will go to bed having lost their children to gun violence on Mother's … [Read more...]
May 1, 2013 By
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow features Moms Demand Action’s New Video “How many more rounds, part II?”
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/51725834 … [Read more...]
April 29, 2013 By
Deja Vu – VIDEO: “How Many More Rounds Part II?”
MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA LAUNCHES NEW VIDEO AFTER SENATE FAILS TO ACT Moms Demand Action has launched another video to spur new action by the public after the Senate recently failed to pass common-sense gun laws. The video, “How many more rounds, part II?,” highlights the fruitless conversation our nation has had for decades about the need to establish new and stronger gun laws, despite the shooting tragedies our nation … [Read more...]
April 28, 2013 By
Armed In America
Rights are not unlimited. The first amendment grants us the right to free speech, but that doesn’t mean you can threaten to bomb an airport or yell fire in a theatre or collect child pornography. By Hollye Dexter Moms Demand Action was formed in the wake of the Newtown tragedy by Shannon Watts, a mom in Indiana who’d had enough. Apparently, she was not alone in her feelings. Four months later, we are nationwide with over 90 chapters and … [Read more...]
April 27, 2013 By
Heather Whaley, Mom, Prank Calls Senator Bob Corker To Advocate For Gun Control (VIDEO)
Frustrated after the Senate bill to expand gun background checks failed earlier this month, Heather Whaley has taken matters into her own hands. A member of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, she is practicing what the group preaches, calling Senators who voted against the measure one by one. However, as the clip above shows, when she reached one particular Senator's office, she took a unique approach to the conversation. On April … [Read more...]
April 25, 2013 By
Scarborough Shreds Sen. For Caving To Minority In One Of ‘Saddest, Most Pathetic’ Votes ‘I’ve Ever Seen’
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy by Meenal Vamburkar | 8:54 am, April 25th, 2013 Joe Scarborough is often angry from 6-9 a.m. on weekdays. Some days more than others. Count today among “some days.” Today’s edition of Scarborough Outrage was dedicated very specifically to Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND). Yes, they both voted against background checks. In Ayotte’s … [Read more...]
April 21, 2013 By
Gun control supporters protest outside Sen. Jeff Flake’s Tucson office
(watch video content) by Samantha Ptashkin TUCSON- It was the shout heard 'round the Senate chamber. But January 8 shooting survivor Patricia Maisch says she wouldn't take back her outburst after Wednesday's vote on a gun control measure that would extend background checks. "I believe the senators that voted no, except Harry Reid, lost their souls that day," Maisch says. Today Maisch joined several other supporters of gun control … [Read more...]
April 21, 2013 By
Atlanta Residents Protest Senate Gun Amendment Vote
We see the NRA has a stronghold on you. We see that you seem to care more about you’re a rating with the NRA than the public safety of our children and our citizens. — Melinda Ennis, co-president of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Georgia chapter By MICHELLE WIRTH ATLANTA — A local protest today in response to U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss voting with more than 40 other senators to defeat a Senate … [Read more...]
April 17, 2013 By
For the mothers of America, this is not the end. It is just the beginning.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Shannon Watts, Founder Phone: 404-580-3500 Email: media@momsdemandaction.org (Indianapolis, IN) Wed., April 17, 2013 - Nearly four months after the tragedy that took 20 first-graders' lives in Connecticut, the mothers of America are sickened by our elected leaders’ inability to enact bipartisan, common-sense gun reforms supported by 90 percent of the American people. Instead, more than 40 … [Read more...]
April 16, 2013 By
Another Voice: Objections to reasonable restrictions don’t hold up
By Amy Wallace, The Buffalo News - Opinion I have heard every argument in the gun control debate from gun rights activists, including the argument that criminals won’t follow new gun laws anyway, so why have them. If that is truly the case, then why have any laws at all? The very nature of the word criminal is someone who breaks the law. So should we just abolish the laws against murder, rape and theft, too, if the criminals are just … [Read more...]
April 15, 2013 By
“Choose One” — Little Red Riding Hood or an Assault Weapon?
We keep 'Little Red Riding Hood' out of schools because of the bottle of wine in her basket. Why not assault weapons? We ban the game dodgeball because it's viewed as being too violent. Why not assault weapons? We won't sell Kinder chocolate eggs in the interest of child safety. Why not assault weapons? Moms Demand Action announces new PSA campaign, “Choose One,” a series of print ads featuring assault weapons … [Read more...]
April 12, 2013 By
Oklahoma Moms Demand Gun Control Changes
OKLAHOMA CITY – The group, “Moms Demand Gun Sense in America,” showed up Thursday outside U.S. Senator Tom Coburn’s office hoping their concerns would be heard. They said some sort of gun control is needed not only here at home but across the U.S. They are a small group fighting a big fight. Member Jennifer Joy said, “We’re not trying to take guns away from responsible law-abiding gun owners. We are trying to keep the guns out … [Read more...]
April 11, 2013 By
At Pennsylvania Capitol, groups calling to close loophole in gun laws
By Jon Schmitz / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG -- Christine Licata, a mother of two who lives in Cumberland County, said she never paid much attention to politics and government, and would turn away from news reports of mass shootings. That all changed Dec. 14, when she got word of the massacre of 20 children and six staffers at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. "As the news unraveled, so did I," she said at a news conference … [Read more...]
April 10, 2013 By
“How Many More Rounds?” Featured On MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show
Moms Demand Action has launched a campaign to drive support for new and stronger gun laws in America in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. The video, “How many more rounds?,” is an emotive depiction of the damage caused by gun violence and was featured on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show tonight. … [Read more...]
