Shannon Watts Urges a ‘Safety Net of Solutions’ to Prevent Gun Violence
SHOWING CHANGE IS POSSIBLE Shannon Watts (at right; shown here with TC faculty member Sonali Rajan) knew little about advocacy when she founded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. Now the organization has 6 million followers and has helped drive incremental change in states across the country.
Convocation No Silver Bullet: Opening Convocation Week, activist Shannon Watts urges a ‘safety net of solutions’ to prevent gun violence
America’s gun violence epidemic is a horrific situation that persists despite overwhelming public support for obvious remedies. But responses to the crisis also demonstrate that, even in the face of powerful lobbying interests and Congressional gridlock, grassroots change is possible. Exhibit A: a story that began with one woman’s response to the 2012 massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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BROOKLYN (CN) Prosecutors called a United States Capitol police officer to testify Friday in the Brooklyn federal trial of a Queens man charged with threatening to murder members of Congress before, and in the days following, the Jan. 6 riots in Washington.
Special Agent Christopher Desrosiers had been working from home that day due to the Covid-19 pandemic, when he got notice that there had been a security breach and officers may need backup.
Having turned on the TV and seen demonstrations underway, Desrosiers was already in his car by the time he got confirmation that help was needed.
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Whether celebratory or tragic, we all have our own list of “where were you when” moments, where we remember with ease where we were and what we were doing as truly landmark world events unfolded around us.
Growing up, my mother always told us where she was and what she was doing when she heard that President John F. Kennedy was shot. (The milkman had just made his delivery as the news broke; he sat together with my grandmother at her kitchen table, and they cried together).