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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 24, 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 22, 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 21, 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 21, 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…
January 19, 2013
Gun lobby has reigned too long in state capitals
The pro-gun side has assigned itself the privilege of telling the rest of us what the Second Amendment stands for — basically no holds barred access to firearms, no matter how deadly. We don’t have to accept that interpretation.
January 19, 2013
Gun-control group to rally in Jersey City park
I think that people who are on the side of gun-violence prevention aren’t going to allow themselves to be bullied anymore, they’ve found the bravery to stand up to the other side. — Mandi Perlmutter, New Jersey…
January 18, 2013
Bill to Arm Virginia School Employees Deferred
This is just a horrible idea. You don’t mix more firearms with small children. — Rebecca Caffrey, One Million Moms For Gun Control Several gun-rights supporters, many wearing lapel stickers saying “Guns Save Lives,” spoke in…
Did you know
Black Americans are nearly twice as likely as white Americans to die from COVID-19 and more than 10 times as likely to die from gun homicide.
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, “Gun Violence and COVID-19 in 2020: A Year of Colliding Crises,” May 7, 2021, https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-and-covid-19-in-2020-a-year-of-colliding-crises/.
