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Pantsuit Politics

Gun Sense and Female Leadership with Shannon Watts

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Shannon Watts started Moms Demand Action as a Facebook page at her kitchen table. Five years later, it is the driving force in the gun violence prevention movement.  Thanks to our sponsors: goodcleangrapes.com and Martha Stewart Wine Co. Visit the Moms Demand Action website to learn about, support, or get involved with their work for gun sense in America. Visit the Pantsuit Politics Patreon page to support the show and get access to bonus content. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Shannon Watts started Mom's Demand Action as a Facebook page at her kitchen table.

0:05.0

Five years later, it is the driving force in the gun violence prevention movement.

0:08.9

We're talking with Shannon about why women are leading this effort and why she's never

0:12.7

fatigued.

0:14.2

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

0:17.0

You're listening to Pansley Politics.

0:18.9

No shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

0:30.0

Welcome to another episode.

0:35.8

Y'all, we are so excited to be joined today by the founder of Mom's Demand Action.

0:40.7

We've spoken a lot about this organization and our personal involvement in it.

0:44.5

And we've reached out to Shannon and she was happy to come on the show.

0:47.4

We're going to talk about why she founded Mom's, why she thought Mom's in particular

0:51.3

were the answer.

0:52.4

We're going to go through a lot of the most common arguments we hear from pro-second amendment

0:56.8

people about why good common sense gun laws aren't needed and she's going to give these

1:00.6

amazing responses.

1:01.6

I'm so excited to share those with you.

1:03.6

So here's our interview with Shannon.

1:05.5

Well, we are so excited to be here with Shannon Watts, the founder of Mom's Demand Action.

1:11.4

And before we get started, Shannon, I'm going to try to do this and not get too emotional.

1:15.2

But I just want to thank you as a victim of gun violence.

1:19.6

The last time in particularly in Parkland, and I talked about this a lot on the episode

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