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Jersey City – Mayor Healy to join One Million Moms for Gun Control for Jan. 26 rally
One Million Moms for Gun Control – NJ has been overwhelmed by the response of our New Jersey elected officials, especially Mayor Healy’s office. As we rally together, we want to send a powerful message to Washington that we will…
January 18, 2013
Can mothers take on gun violence with the same impact as drunk driving?
Like Mothers Against Drunk Driving helped change lax laws in the 1980s, One Million Moms for Gun Control will not rest until common-sense gun laws are put in place at both the national and state levels. We are the wave…
January 18, 2013
One Million Moms For Gun Control Launches “How do you wear your heart?” Campaign
Today One Million Moms for Gun Control launches our new campaign “How Do You Wear Your Heart?” We want moms across the country to express their love for their children AND their demand for new gun control laws.
January 17, 2013
Kathleen Turner, Shannon Watts and others, to speak at D.C. gun control march
One Million Moms for Gun Control was founded on Dec. 14, 2012 by Indiana mother Sharon Watts. The organization has established nearly 75 branches across the country. In addition to joining the March on Washington for Gun Control, 1MM4GC’s New…
January 17, 2013
Declaración Official Un Millión de Madres para el Control de Armas (1MM4GC)
Declaración Official Un Millión de Madres para el Control de Armas (1MM4GC) La legislación propuesta hoy por el President Obama mejorará la seguridad de nuestros hijos en ciudades, zonas rurales, y en las afueras de la ciudad.(Indianapolis,…
January 17, 2013
From Washington, D.C. to Seattle, Washington The Day Was About Reducing Gun Violence, Deaths
Click for PDF of President Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence. We have to examine ourselves in our hearts, and ask yourselves what is important? This will not happen, unless the American people demand it. If parents…
January 17, 2013
One Million Moms for Gun Control … Moms rise up once again
Images from the Moms Demand Action campaign State Rep. Stacey Newman (St. Louis, MO) As a former Million Mom who marched on the front lines with my then 7 year old daughter and 750,000 others…
January 16, 2013
One Million Moms For Gun Control Supports The Obama Administration Efforts To Reduce Gun Violence
Proposal calls for universal background checks for all purchasers and other common sense measures President Obama signs 23 Executive Orders to aid in the reduction of gun violence on January 16, 2013. He calls on the American people…
January 16, 2013
Gun violence survivor Kim Russell: ‘I feel much safer’ in New York because of Cuomo’s new law
I am so grateful to be a New Yorker now. I feel much safer. Hopefully his law will set the standard for the country. — Kim Russell, National Director of Chapter Outreach, One Million Moms For Gun…
January 16, 2013
Texas Rep. Dan Flynn’s Bill Wants To Reduce Handgun Proficiency Training Hours
We want our children to be safe. Data shows that we can implement reasonable gun legislation while not undermining people’s right to self-defense and to hunt. — Jane, member of One Million Moms For Gun Control Flynn…
January 14, 2013
812 Shot To Death Since Newtown Massacre One Month Ago
Dear President Obama, I am 12 years old and in seventh grade. We have lockdown drills for if someone enters the school. I always looked at those as drills we just have to do. I…
January 13, 2013
Phone Calls Pressure Elected Officials To Act On Gun Control Laws
Most of the 200 calls to the office of Rep. Mike Doyle, a Forest Hills, PA Democrat, were ‘very heavily in favor of doing something.’ Gun Debate Lights Up Congressional Phone Lines Gun stores across the nation have reported brisk…
January 13, 2013
Albany, New York Letter: Gun reform needs much stronger lobby
NRA members are willing to spend $35 per year in order to advance their interests. What are we willing to spend to protect our families from military-style weapons? — Lisa Ribeiro, Albany, New York The NRA…
January 13, 2013
Norwalk, CT Mom Doesn’t Want To Talk About Gun Control Any More
This is not about dialogue. This is about action; this is about motivating people to reach out online, with handwritten letters, with in-person protests and rallies to their lawmakers. — Kara Baekey, Fairfield (CT) County chapter of One Million…
January 12, 2013
Indy-based One Million Moms for Gun Control Planning Major March In DC And Rally In NYC
By Mike Corbin – [email protected] | @WIBC_MikeCorbin Click to listen to Shannon Watts’ interview by Mike Corbin, WIBC. One Million Moms for Gun…
January 12, 2013
Columbus Chapter of One Million Moms for Gun Control Gaining Momentum With Social Media
When I was a kid, I had a gun held on me as a threat … as a mom I just want public places to be safe for my kid … it makes me angry that…
January 12, 2013
ln Sacramento, One Million Moms For Gun Control Calls Common Sense Gun Control Debate
Children are now going to school worried whether or not they are going to live through the day. We’re not anti-gun but we don’t want guns in the hands of people who are unstable or…
January 11, 2013
Republican Joe Scarborough: NRA is protecting gun manufacturers, not the Second Amendment
Can we just break through the BS?” Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said on Friday’s Morning Joe. “This is not—for the NRA—about Second Amendment rights.This is about gun manufacturers making millions and millions and millions of dollars. This is about…
January 11, 2013
Two Students From Palo Alto’s (CA) Castilleja High School Create Video In Tribute Of Newtown Massacre Victims
Palo Alto Castilleja High School students Nayanika Kapoor and Katja Teichmann made this film in honor of the victims of Sandy Hook and to thank the members of One Million Moms for Gun Control for coming together to demand new…
January 11, 2013
Local voices on gun control issue speaking loud and clear to Washington D.C.
We have to keep the Second Amendment, but look at common sense regulation that will assure that when I send my son to school everyday, he’s gonna come back and right now those laws are not in place.
January 10, 2013
One Million Moms For Gun Control Calls For Common Sense Compromise on Gun Laws
“We just want some common sense compromise, and approach … so that our kids can go to school and come home alive — One Million Moms For Gun Control” (video file embedded)…
January 10, 2013
ONE MILLION MOMS FOR GUN CONTROL ANNOUNCES DEMONSTRATIONS IN NYC AND DC
Moms Who Can’t Attend to Participate in Local and Virtual Gatherings (Indianapolis, IN) One Million Moms for Gun Control announced today that it would sponsor and co-sponsor several major events in January to demand action on common-sense gun control…
January 10, 2013
Reframing the Gun Debate – This time things are different – By Charles M. Blow
The White House is weighing a far broader and more comprehensive approach to curbing the nation’s gun violence than simply reinstating an expired ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, according to multiple people involved in the administration’s discussions.
January 10, 2013
Can Mothers Help Frame the Gun Control Conversation in America?
Maybe, by coming together, we can focus attention on the need for better access to mental health services; challenge the notion that owning semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines is inscribed in the Constitution and rally elected officials on both…
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/.
