Gun Sense and Female Leadership with Shannon Watts
Pantsuit Politics
Lemonada Media
4.5 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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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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