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99. How We’ll Save Our Kids From the Gun Lobby’s Greed with Shannon Watts

99. How We’ll Save Our Kids From the Gun Lobby’s Greed with Shannon Watts

FromWe Can Do Hard Things


99. How We’ll Save Our Kids From the Gun Lobby’s Greed with Shannon Watts

FromWe Can Do Hard Things

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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
May 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

1. Why guns are now the leading cause of death for American children and teens, and who is profiting from America’s suffering.
2. What to say today when your child leaves the house to help protect them from gun violence.
3. The lie our leaders are selling us about why they won’t pass the reforms that 90% of Americans want, and how one mom became the NRA’s biggest nightmare.
4. How to safeguard our kids from the negative impact of for-profit active shooter drills in schools. 

About Shannon:
Shannon Watts was a stay at home mother of five when she founded Moms Demand Action, the nation’s first and largest grassroots movement fighting against gun violence – and the most powerful counter-movement the gun lobby has ever faced. Moms Demand Action now has a chapter in every state and, with over 8 million supporters, is now larger than the National Rifle Association. For almost ten years, Moms Demand Action volunteers have stopped the NRA’s priority legislation in statehouses roughly 90 percent of the time, helped pass hundreds of gun safety laws across the country, changed corporate policies and educated Americans about secure gun storage. Shannon’s book, Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World, is now available in paperback.

TW: @shannonrwatts
IG:@shannonrwatts
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Released:
May 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed – the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry. Because we experienced the hardship of the pandemic collectively, many of us finally acknowledged what was true before COVID and will be true after: That life is freaking HARD. We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard Things, my sister Amanda and I will do the only thing I’ve found that has ever made life easier: We will drop the fake and talk honestly about the hard. Each week we will bring our hard to you and we will ask you to bring your hard to us and we will do what we were all meant to do down here: Help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, more free and less alone.