I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moorers & Company, the legendary

folk singer Peter Yarrow and Sandy Hook parents Francine and David Wheeler joined to turn

tragedy to transformation. We talk about the power of music to create change and their

mission to protect communities from gun violence.

We will not be defeated in our effort to transform this moment of sadness into a moment of togetherness and affirmation.

Why don't we find a way to not debate and fight about what you believe guns are and what I believe guns

are, let's come together and figure out a way to make them safer.

In every major social movement toward equality, in the arc of the universe bending toward

justice, there has been some kind of a tipping point, and perhaps this is one. Thanks for joining us.

You will remember that three weeks ago, a group of parents and others who lost loved ones

in the Newtown Connecticut school killings went to Washington. They walked the halls of the Capitol,

meeting with senators and urging them to vote yes for an amendment that They walked the halls of the Capitol, meeting with senators and urging

them to vote yes for an amendment that would expand the use of background checks for people

buying guns. Although a majority favored the legislation, they fell six votes short of the

60 votes necessary under current Senate rules for passage. But the Newtown families, friends, and

neighbors do not intend to quit. They're part now of a nationwide movement committed to

changing our gun culture. They call it the Sandy Hook promise after the Sandy Hook Elementary

School where the 20 children and six educators were shot and killed.

Their mission statement reads,

America is in desperate need of a new path forward to address our epidemic of gun violence.

And then comes the promise.

This time, there will be change.

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