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January 27, 2013

Selling a New Generation on Guns by The New York Times

A junior shooter receiving tips on a military rifle last fall from an Army marksmanship instructor at a clinic at Fort Benning, Ga. Youth shooting clinics and competitions often receive financial support or supplies from firearms-related businesses.
January 26, 2013

This Is What a Gun Control March on Washington Looks Like

By Connor Simpson, The Atlantic Wire It was cold in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from participating in…
January 25, 2013

BNN News Interviews One Million Moms for Gun Control’s Dawn Tingras and Molly Malloy

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ydT0UUVgDE&w=681&h=511] Dawn Tingras and Molly Malloy from One Million Moms for Gun Control’s Greater Boston Area Chapter on Facebook…
January 25, 2013

One Million Moms For Gun Control: Origins Of A Movement

When Donna Dees Thomases, creator of the Million Mom March, learned what Watts was doing, she called and offered her blessing. “It’s a relay race,” she says. “And this is the passing of the baton. We will look back on…
January 25, 2013

I Might Be a Dad (and a Grandfather) But I Join With The One Million Moms

From the Heart Rabbi Gary S. Creditor Rabbi Gary S. CreditorIn my continuing involvement in the fight against violence in our culture and county while joining with others to effect gun control that is logical and practical,…
January 25, 2013

One Million Moms for Gun Control Gets Vital Help From Vancouver Company

The National Rifle Association has been organizing themselves since 1871. We are playing catch-up, and we are using social media, specifically FundRazr, to rapidly do that as well as to secure the dollars we need to successfully move forward.
January 25, 2013

Se presenta proyecto de ley que prohibe armas automaticas

WFDC News January 24, 2013. 06:02 PM Washington DC (EVC) Una coalicion de senadores, alcaldes y victimas de la violencia con armas de fuego anunciaron hoy un proyecto de ley para prohibir la venta de los fusiles de asalto.
January 24, 2013

Not Quite One Million Moms

I was finally doing something. And something was probably better than nothing. Our hand-painted protest signs were like bright splashes of hope against the gray winter sky. — Julie Flynn Badal, Mother and Writer…
January 24, 2013

1MM4GC Founder Shannon Watts On MSNBC As Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California reintroduces the assault weapons

Shannon Watts, founder of One Million Moms for Gun Control, talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Megan Hughes about gun control. They speak on Bloomberg Television’s “Taking Stock.” (Source: Bloomberg) Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, on Thursday introduced a bill…
January 24, 2013

San Francisco Chronicle – Million Moms group pushes for gun control

I think the last election demonstrated the collective power of women. When they care about an issue, and they mobilize, they feel really empowered to make a difference. — Michelle Sandberg, M.D., Pediatrician, Mother of three…
January 23, 2013

Stronger Gun Laws: The Next Women’s Issue?

With women deciding the election for Obama, a gap on stronger gun laws could be a defining issue in elections to come. Pew notes men are divided as to whether Obama’s proposed gun policies are “about right” or “go too…
January 23, 2013

One Million Moms Make a Case for Stricter Gun Control

It’s not tough to imagine what a woman — or any parent, for that matter — will do when it comes to ensuring the safety of their child. — Michaela Pommells, Anti-bias Activist, Organizer, Educator Many parents…
January 21, 2013

One Million Moms For Gun Control Rally In NYC

Moms: We can never back down from our newfound conviction and resolution to strengthen this country’s gun regulations. We will not go back to letting the National Rifle Association and Congress and State Legislatures tell us how to keep our…
January 21, 2013

The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door by Pam Allyn

Today, January 21, I am joining with One Million Moms for Gun Control to walk in a rally to call attention to the need to create a safer, nonviolent world for children. — Pam Allyn, literacy and education expert…
January 21, 2013

Obama’s Gun-Control Has This Growing Mom Movement Behind It

By Scott Goodson, Contributor, Forbes If you start to see 1MM4GC chalked on your sidewalk or bus shelter, don’t assume it’s urban graffiti. Scott GoodsonFor…
January 21, 2013

A Million Moms Against Gun Violence by Shannon Watts

Moms across the country express their love for their children AND their demand for new gun control laws. The Second Amendment does not make this an “either/or” conversation: Americans can own guns and be responsible; our children can…
January 21, 2013

Gun-Control Advocate Looking for a Million Good Moms

When you see 6- and 7-year-old babies shot 11 times in a classroom, a place we consider a safe haven, that’s a tipping point. The N.R.A. outlined how they saw the vision of America. That future is everyone is armed…
January 20, 2013

1MM4GC National Events on Jan. 26

One Million Moms for Gun Control is sponsoring and co-sponsoring marches and rallies throughout the nation on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 to demand action on common-sense gun control laws. One Million Moms for Gun Control will co-sponsor the…
January 20, 2013

1MM4GC Local Chapters On Facebook

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January 20, 2013

Up Close: Gun Control ABC7 New York With Kim Russell And Marie Delus from 1MM4GC

Kim Russell, National Director of Chapter Outreach, One Million Moms For Gun Control and Marie Delus from the Brooklyn Chapter discuss, their personal involvement with gun violence and activism inspired by the tragedy at the Newtown, CT shooting massacre.
January 20, 2013

One Million Moms 4 Gun Control Kim Russell NY1 Television Interview

There are many issues that have led to our current epidemic of gun violence. I think they all need to be addressed. Mental health, our culture of video games, etc. WE are addressing gun regulations. —…
January 20, 2013

Press Releases

Click to download PDF October 17, 2013 – MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA WISCONSIN CHAPTER TO HOLD DOMESTIC GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS EVENT October 17, 2013 – MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA SOUTH…
January 20, 2013

Hart to Heart: Gun violence is a parenting issue

MADD changed the conversation from the rights of drivers to have a good time on Saturday night to the rights of those they would maim and kill. And that is the only way this next parenting fight can be won.
January 19, 2013

Why I am marching for gun control

I am not a mother. I am not a teacher. I am not a policy person. I am not a safety expert. But none of that matters. I had to act. The victims at Sandy Hook were everyone’s children. The…

Did you know

Black Americans represent the majority of gun homicide victims and are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide.