Gun Safety

June 19, 2015

On the evening of Wednesday, June 17th, nine men and women - mothers, fathers and grandparents - were shot and killed inside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, an iconic African American house of worship known for centuries of human and civil rights activism. As executive...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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Gun Safety

June 2, 2015

June 2, today, is the first National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and MomsRising is joining the gun safety community by #WearingOrange to help spread the word. Why orange? Because it’s the color of safety — it’s the color that hunters wear so other hunters don’t accidentally shoot them and that...

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Gloria Pan

Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care

May 11, 2015

Reposted from Role Reboot where it originally appeared. When mothers get angry about the state of their neighborhoods, cities, nations or earth, they have always been on the front lines for change. Let’s celebrate them this Mother’s Day. I have a conflicted relationship with Mother’s Day. I have...

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Amie Newman

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Gun Safety Health Care MomsVote Politics & Policy

May 7, 2015

Mothers In Charge is turning pain into power by launching a new effort to focus resources on the root causes of violence and promote healing.

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Diann Rust-Tierney

Gun Safety

May 4, 2015

Growing evidence is proving what seems self-evident: Regulation of firearms saves lives . Stated another way, it’s becoming increasingly clear that looser gun regulations are associated with gun-related injuries and death. Unfortunately, some states--like my beloved state of North Carolina—are...

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Anon

Gun Safety

May 1, 2015

Why? Because North Carolina politicos think moms aren't paying attention Gun safety shenanigans in the NC State House North Carolinians agree that not everyone should be able to have a gun—not violent criminals, not domestic abusers, not the dangerously mentally ill. That’s why 90% of us want...

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Beth Messersmith

Gun Safety

March 24, 2015

When I heard about legislation moving forward that would put concealed weapons on campus I thought of my days at Rollins College. I was 17 years old and happy to be as close to adulthood as I’d ever gotten. I lived off campus which meant I had the wheels and was called upon to drive my schoolmates...

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Sili Recio

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Gun Safety

March 13, 2015

If three-year-old Johnny loves to whack other children over their heads with his plastic sword and he wanted to bring that sword over to my house for a play date with my kid, then I’d say, “Leave your plastic sword at home.” That would be my right, since it’s my house, and it’s my kid’s noggin...

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Gloria Pan

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Gun Safety

December 30, 2014

Two months ago, my heart froze when I heard about a school shooting at a high school near me in the Seattle-area. On Oct. 24, a shooter killed 4 classmates before fatally wounding himself at Marysville Pilchuck High School.

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Gun Safety

December 18, 2014

A friend recently shared what happened last year during a holiday visit to her parents’ house. While looking for medicine to soothe a headache, she opened a drawer and found a loaded, unsecured gun. As the mother of two young children, she was shocked that her parents would have left a loaded gun...

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