99. How We’ll Save Our Kids From the Gun Lobby’s Greed with Shannon Watts

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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1. Why guns are now the leading cause of death for American children and teens, and who is profiting from America’s suffering. 2. What to say today when your child leaves the house to help protect them from gun violence. 3. The lie our leaders are selling us about why they won’t pass the reforms that 90% of Americans want, and how one mom became the NRA’s biggest nightmare. 4. How to safeguard our kids from the negative impact of for-profit active shooter drills in schools. About Shannon: Shannon Watts was a stay at home mother of five when she founded Moms Demand Action, the nation’s first and largest grassroots movement fighting against gun violence – and the most powerful counter-movement the gun lobby has ever faced. Moms Demand Action now has a chapter in every state and, with over 8 million supporters, is now larger than the National Rifle Association. For almost ten years, Moms Demand Action volunteers have stopped the NRA’s priority legislation in statehouses roughly 90 percent of the time, helped pass hundreds of gun safety laws across the country, changed corporate policies and educated Americans about secure gun storage. Shannon’s book, Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World, is now available in paperback. TW: @shannonrwatts IG:@shannonrwatts

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0:00.0	Hello, family. This is Amanda. We're speaking at a very tender moment. This is too much.
0:18.0	It's too much heartbreak, too much rage, too much unspeakable tragedy, too much, especially
0:28.0	as we grieve and rage and vow never again, only to endure it again and again and again.
0:38.0	We don't know what to say to ourselves because never again feels like a lie. We don't know
0:44.0	what to say to our kids because promising they will be safe at school today feels like a lie.
0:50.0	We feel ashamed that part of us is numb to the horror that 10 years ago felt unfathomable.
0:58.0	I want you to know that this feels like too much for our hearts and minds because it is.
1:06.0	It insults our souls and shuts down our heads and hearts because we were never made to live like this and die like this.
1:18.0	I'm asking you to please stay here with us because your soul rages against this.
1:26.0	You may be tempted to turn this off and not listen to this conversation.
1:32.0	We understand if you must, but we also understand that your soul rages against this because you know better and you deserve better.
1:42.0	And if we are ever going to have better, it will be because we listen to the raging of our souls.
1:50.0	It feels like if there was not a soul after Sandy hook 10 years ago or Parkland four years ago, there isn't ever going to be change.
2:01.0	But the moral arc of the universe is long too fucking long and it bends only one force by the strength of our raging souls.
2:12.0	It took a hundred year long fight for women to secure the right to vote.
2:16.0	It took a hundred year long fight after the civil war to end legalized racial segregation.
2:23.0	A hundred years.
2:25.0	What would have happened if on year 10 folks had decided that hope was a feeling instead of a discipline?
2:31.0	Hopelessness is not hard.
2:34.0	Hopelessness is a resignation.
2:37.0	A luxury folks might have if their children were not being sacrificed on the altar of profits and power.
2:46.0	Hopelessness is not a way of people who do hard things.
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