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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…
January 10, 2013
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January 9, 2013ONE MILLION MOMS FOR GUN CONTROL TO CO-SPONSOR MARCH IN WASHINGTON, DC
Moms Who Can’t Make it to the Beltway to March Locally (Indianapolis, IN) One Million Moms for Gun Control announced today that it will co-sponsor the March on Washington for Gun Control in Washington, DC, on Sat., Jan…
January 9, 2013
Cleveland, Ohio Moms On a Gun Control Mission – WOIO
In the tradition of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving the One Million Moms Movement for Gun Control is raising its voice to put a stop to gun violence across America, including right here in northeast Ohio. — Lisa…
January 8, 2013
NEWS ANALYSIS — More Guns = More Killing
As guns proliferate, legally and illegally, innocent people often seem more terrorized than protected. ©2013 By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, The New York Times IN the wake of the tragic shooting deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School in…
January 8, 2013
Keeping Guns Away From Children
The United States has the dubious distinction of leading high-income countries in firearm homicides, suicides and unintentional deaths among young people. By JANE E. BRODY I doubt that our forebears who ratified the Second Amendment in 1791 ever…
January 8, 2013
Northeast Ohio Moms Join One Million Moms For Gun Control To Change Gun Laws
The age of the children, and the fact that I have a child that’s school age, really just hit home to me, knowing that could have been my daughter (at Sandy Hook Elementary School in CT) ……
January 7, 2013
London Daily Mail – International Spotlight On One Million Moms For Gun Control And Ongoing Gun Control Story In United States
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS and REUTERS REPORTER An antique gun show went ahead as planned on Saturday 40 miles from the site of the December 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, even…
January 7, 2013
One Million Moms For Gun Control’s Kim Russell Fights For Common Sense Gun Laws
We do not want our schools to feel like prisons. We want our schools to feel like nurturing, safe environments. What is next? Are they going to put armed guards at Disney World? We don’t think more guns is the…
January 6, 2013
Controversial Stamford, CT Gun Show Denounced By One Million Moms For Gun Control
As a lifetime resident of Fairfield County, the same county as Newtown, I believe it is too soon for a gun show to be held so close to Sandy Hook. We are still under the microscope of the media, our…
January 6, 2013
Gunman and Three Others Killed Today After Standoff in Aurora, Colo.
©2013 By RAVI SOMAIYA, The New York Times Four people, including a gunman who was suspected of taking hostages inside a house in Aurora, Colo, died Saturday after astandoff with the police, the authorities said. The…
January 5, 2013
ONE MILLION MOMS FOR GUN CONTROL PROTESTING GUN SHOW NEAR NEWTOWN MASSACRE SITE TOMORROW
The majority of Mothers of America made a promise after Newtown that we would not move on again from another mass shooting without action. We must join together to say that this is not acceptable: not in this community, and…
January 5, 2013
Stamford Mayor Allows Gun Show 40 Miles From Where Adam Lanza Killed His Mother Before Sandy Hook Gun Rampage; Waterbury Police Chief cancels gun show
Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia told The Stamford Advocate that event planners should be “sensitive” to the timing of the show. Waterbury, CT’s police chief has halted permits for gun shows, saying he’s concerned a firearm purchased in his city might…
January 4, 2013
Are California Teachers’ Pensions Funding the NRA?
California teachers who are horrified to know that some of their pension funds may have been given to the NRA should ask CalSTRS to demand that Cerberus disclose all politically-related contributions and sponsorships … — Richard Robbins…
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/.
