I watched in horror at footage of elementary-aged children running out of school in terror. As a stay-at-home mom of five, I was doing laundry when the news of the school shooting at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut, broke. Shannon Watts: The trajectory of my life drastically changed on December 12, 2012. Katie Couric Media: You started your organization Moms Demand Action out of a Facebook group in 2012. The gun-safety activist talked with KCM about how you can join their mom army to advocate for gun-safety legislation. “You should never underestimate a bunch of pissed-off moms,” Shannon told us. Nearly 10 years later, Shannon’s Facebook group grew into Moms Demand Action. With just 75 Facebook friends, she decided to start a group to mobilize other moms who were similarly outraged. She decided then and there she had to do something. Watts herself was a stay-at-home mom with five kids when she turned on the television and saw the news of the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012.
To save lives and end these senseless killings, we need more than thoughts and prayers –– we need federal action on gun safety from the Senate and the administration, and we need it now.” “We can’t and won’t accept gun violence as just a fact of life in America. “We mourn with the communities of Boulder and Atlanta after the devastating and senseless mass shooting tragedies in the past week,” she told us. KCM spoke with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement with more than 6 million supporters working to fight gun violence. In 2021 alone, there’ve been almost 25 mass murders due to gun violence thus far - a decrease from 2020, but nonetheless a chilling figure.
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