After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, many Americans felt a call to action to reform our country’s gun laws. One of these people was Shannon Watts, a mother of five who started a Facebook group that turned into Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Two years later, a mom in Texas joined her local chapter of Moms Demand Action after losing her 20-year-old son to gun violence. Calandrian Simpson-Kemp and Shannon Watts join us to speak about turning grief into action and passing common-sense gun legislation in a country that has a gun homicide rate that’s 25x higher than any other high-income country. 

 

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Resources from the episode:

• Follow Moms Demand Action and Shannon Watts on Twitter
• Get involved in your local Moms Demand Action chapter
• Resources and research on laws mentioned in this episode:
• Stand your ground laws
• Extreme risk, or “red flag,” laws
• The boyfriend loophole
• Violence Against Women Act 
• George Floyd Justice and Policing Act

 

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