Comprehensive Gun Reform With Shannon Watts

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bakari Sellers is joined by activist and founder of Moms Demand Action Shannon Watts to discuss what led to her founding the nation’s largest grassroots group fighting gun violence (:52), taking on the NRA (5:49), and the prospect of reforming gun laws in 2022 (19:31). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Shannon Watts Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Producer: Donnie Beacham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, welcome to another.
0:05.0	I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay. Well, welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.
0:16.5	Today is one of those days where you get to interview your friends on Twitter in real life.
0:23.4	Over the past few years, we've been so disconnected
0:27.1	and people that you consider to be a friend that you know in your head
0:30.2	and you absolutely never met in your life, but you love them and adore their work.
0:34.3	Today is one of those opportunities because where I get to say hello to Shannon Watts.
0:37.8	How are you?
0:38.8	I'm good.
0:39.8	How are you?
0:40.8	I'm doing really well.
0:41.8	You know, we start each one of our shows, the top of our
0:44.8	shows the same way and I think our listeners are quite used to it by now but we
0:48.5	ask our guests to walk us through the arc of their career.
0:52.5	And your journey to advocacy has been an interesting one.
0:54.5	Can you talk to our listeners about how
0:56.6	you got into gun advocacy,
0:58.6	and specifically how moms demand action came about?
1:02.1	Yeah, you know, I had a career in corporate communications,
1:06.5	right out of college.
1:07.3	I did public relations for a living.
1:09.6	And I took a break.
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