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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts on a decade of taking on the NRA

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In 2012, horrified by the Sandy Hook school shooting, stay-at-home mom Shannon Watts founded Moms Demand Action. It’s now one of the largest anti-gun violence groups in the nation. Shannon Watts joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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Contitions and exclations apply.

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This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

1:03.1

On December 14, 2012, a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut

1:10.6

and murdered 26 people.

1:13.4

Twenty of the victims were six and seven-year-old children.

1:18.0

As the news settled over the nation, President Barack Obama gave a statement

1:22.5

from the White House briefing room.

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