Gun Safety

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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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Sara Smith

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Gun Safety Politics & Policy

December 15, 2014

*It's time to make our voices heard to advance police reform nationwide and to end racial profiling: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/justicebrowngarnerall/

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Monifa Bandele

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Gun Safety

October 17, 2014

Horrifying. An anonymous emailer wrote that if Utah State University didn’t cancel Anita Sarkeesian’s speech about women's rights within 24 hours, then he would commit the “deadliest school shooting in American history.”

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Gloria Pan

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Family Economic Security Gun Safety Paid Family Leave

October 10, 2014

Scandal , the show created by one of the few women writers and producers working on primetime TV, Shonda Rhimes, regularly has us buzzing with excitement on Thursday nights when it airs. And we are particularly excited right now because of how the new season is unfolding. Already, the Emmy-award...

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Gloria Pan

Family Economic Security Gun Safety Politics & Policy

September 22, 2014

TERRIFIC BREAKING NEWS! Giant thank you to Alicia Keys for partnering with MomsRising.org & others in a big way for her ‪#‎WeAreHere‬ movement!

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Gun Safety

August 28, 2014

GirlUzi.jpg The news a nine-year-old girl accidentally killed her firearms instructor with an Uzi submachine gun during a family vacation has shocked people across the country and the world. As a bsurd and irresponsible as it is, the gun industry aggressively markets firearms use as " wholesome...

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Gloria Pan

Gun Safety

August 3, 2014

“You are a gun owner?” gasped my then sophomore aged son. “I am a gun owner,” I replied.

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Leigh Anne Treistman

Gun Safety

June 15, 2014

I had a father I worshiped. I think of him on Father’s Day and every day. One thing he did not like is this special day for special treats. Unlike for Mother’s Day where he honored the traditions of breakfast in bed, flowers, candy, perfume, I’ll-do-the-laundry (whoops, that’s my special day dream...

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Susan Shaer

Gun Safety Media Library

June 10, 2014

A few weeks ago, MomsRising asked our members to sign on to our message, "Don't let the NRA choose our U.S. Surgeon General," and confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy at U.S. Surgeon General. Last week on Monday, June 2, we asked members to contact their U.S. Senators to let them know that moms and tots were...

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Gloria Pan