![]() ![]() ![]() Jennifer Hope, a mother of eight who lives on Jefferson County’s Lookout Mountain, found the Facebook group days after the Sandy Hook shooting and messaged Watts asking to get involved. Moderator Sara Grossman, left, listens to Watts. SHANNON WATTS OFFLINEThe online conversation evolved into an offline movement.Īndy Cross, The Denver PostFounder of Moms Demand Action, Shannon Watts, discusses her new book at the Tattered Cover Bookstore on Colfax June 5, 2019. People kept finding and joining the group.” I only had 75 Facebook friends, but it was like lightning in a bottle. “I just knew more guns was not the solution. “I didn’t know anything about policy or organizing,” Watts said. Watts remains at the helm, pushing through death threats and personal call-outs from the NRA to help pass gun-control legislation in statehouses around the country. The group became Moms Demand Action, now one of the most well-known gun control organizations in the nation with almost six million supporters. When she couldn’t find what she was looking for, she made her own. Watts scoured Facebook after the Sandy Hook shooting, looking to join a group similar to Mothers Against Drunk Driving but with a focus on ending gun violence. That newfound, burning activism would soon position the Colorado woman to identify herself as the National Rifle Association’s worst nightmare. Shannon Watts folded laundry as news of the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 20 children and six adults flashed across her television screen in 2012, rattling something inside the mother of five that couldn’t be stifled. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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