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How One Of The NRA’s Biggest Foes Found Her Voice
huffpost.com ^ | 6/6/2019 | Melissa Jeltsen

Posted on 06/09/2019 7:45:28 AM PDT by rktman

On December 14, 2012, Shannon Watts was folding laundry in front of the television when she heard the news: Twenty little children had been shot to death inside their elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Watts, a stay-at-home mother of five, began to cry. But as she continued watching coverage of the tragedy, her emotions flipped from desolate to furious. The prevailing attitude, aired by resigned pundits, was that shootings were inevitable. The next day, she decided to act. Envisioning a group of moms working against gun violence, in the vein of Moms Against Drunk Driving, she created a Facebook page calling for action.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2a; antigunners; banglist; fakenews; gungrabbers; huffingtonpost; nra; rkba; sandyhook; secondamendment; shannonwatts
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And midgety bloomberg had nothing to do with it.
1 posted on 06/09/2019 7:45:28 AM PDT by rktman
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I’ll bet her proctologist told her where to look.


2 posted on 06/09/2019 7:50:24 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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I don’t get it...why are you posting this propaganda???


3 posted on 06/09/2019 7:52:42 AM PDT by ontap
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"How One Of America’s Biggest Foes Found Her Voice"
4 posted on 06/09/2019 7:52:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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What a friggin moron! These @$$holes believe taking guns from good people protect citizens. No, their actions just enable more senseless killings by the bad guys.


5 posted on 06/09/2019 7:53:28 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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Moms demand action would rather have Children burnt to death by a nut using Molotov Cocktails, run over in the School crosswalk by some nut driving a two ton assault Vehicle or blown up by some nut with a Van full of Fertilizer.


6 posted on 06/09/2019 7:56:00 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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I do not care at all about this stupid woman’s emotions.


7 posted on 06/09/2019 7:58:30 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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I don’t get it...why are you posting this propaganda???

Know your enemy. In this case, an enemy of freedom.

An emotional basket case who probably is incapable of logical thought.

Remember Patton regarding Rommel, "I read your book"?

8 posted on 06/09/2019 8:02:02 AM PDT by Mogger
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Know your enemy.


9 posted on 06/09/2019 8:04:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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If the dead adults at Sandy Hook could have a do-over, you can bet they would have preferred to have faced Adam Lanza with a gun of their own.


10 posted on 06/09/2019 8:06:22 AM PDT by umgud
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Zack lee.


11 posted on 06/09/2019 8:11:06 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving, IIRC, after a while the founder of that group (who lost her daughter because a drunken driver ran her over) quit because she did not like the direction that it was taking in terms of doing all sorts of things that were just short of lobbying to get Prohibition reinstated.


12 posted on 06/09/2019 8:13:05 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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"The prevailing attitude, aired by resigned pundits, was that shootings were inevitable." So why was there very little or basically no violence in schools back when schools even in NYC, Chicago, and Washington DC had shooting clubs?
13 posted on 06/09/2019 8:19:09 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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14 posted on 06/09/2019 8:21:04 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
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Her grass roots are about as deep as Rosa Parks were.


15 posted on 06/09/2019 8:22:36 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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Always the same kind of Cindy Sheehan story.


16 posted on 06/09/2019 8:31:59 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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I don’t get it...why are you posting this propaganda???

I don't get it......why did you bother clicking on it?

17 posted on 06/09/2019 8:32:59 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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“...Watts, a stay-at-home mother of five, began to cry....”

So because she cried, you have to give up YOUR rights????

Ummm... Nah.

Nope.

Ain’t gonna happen...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKIuZ4tIzk


18 posted on 06/09/2019 8:50:08 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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19 posted on 06/09/2019 9:16:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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Perhaps this whore will acknowledge that if she's ever threatened with serious harm she'll call a community organizer to defuse the situation.
20 posted on 06/09/2019 9:22:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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