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|image = Moms Demand Action logo.png |
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|membership = Over 150,000 |
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|membership = About 12 Active members |
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|key_people = Shannon Watts aka Shannon Troughton (founder) |
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|key_people = Shannon Watts aka Shannon Troughton (founder) |
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'''Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America''', commonly referred to as an ''extremist terrorist group", wants millions of law abiding gun owners to no longer protect their children. They use kids as pawns to ban something they are scared of, and often ban people from their twitter and facebook pages when presented with actual FACTS. |
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'''Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America''', commonly referred to as '''Moms Demand Action,''' is a campaign of Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund. The group was founded by Shannon Watts (aka Shannon Troughton),<ref name="prnewswire" /> a former communications executive, in ], on December 15, 2012, the day after the ]. The group started as a ] page entitled "One Million Moms for Gun Control." By the end of 2013, it had grown into an advocacy group with 130,000 members and chapters in all 50 states.<ref name=MacKenzie>{{cite news |title=Bloomberg, Watts Team Up to Demand Tougher Gun Abolishment Measures |first=Drew |last=MacKenzie |url=http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/bloomberg-watts-editorial-guns/2013/12/24/id/543674 |newspaper=Newsmax |date=24 December 2013 |accessdate=25 December 2013}}</ref><ref name=Moms131219>{{cite press release |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action to Join Forces, Unite a National Movement to Protect Communities and Save Lives |url=http://momsdemandaction.org/in-the-news/mayors-illegal-guns-moms-demand-action-join-forces-unite-national-movement-protect-communities-save-lives/ |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America |date=19 December 2013 |accessdate=27 December 2013}}</ref> Moms Demand Action has ] members of Congress to strengthen and expand ]s for individuals purchasing guns.<ref>{{cite news |title=Harry Reid Expects the Senate Will Take Up Background Checks Before Midterms |first=George |last=Zornick |url=http://www.thenation.com/blog/175557/harry-reid-expects-senate-will-take-background-checks-midterms |newspaper=] |date=1 August 2013 |accessdate=2 August 2013}}</ref> An ad campaign launched by the group compared assault weapons to less harmful things which have been banned in certain areas of the United States, including ] chocolates, ], and ].<ref name=Parnass>{{cite news |title=Moms' Gun Control Ad Cites Dangers of 'Little Red Riding Hood' |first=Sarah |last=Parnass |url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/04/moms-gun-control-ad-cites-dangers-of-little-red-riding-hood/ |work=] |date=15 April 2013 |accessdate=2 August 2013}}</ref> |
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Watts modeled Moms Demand Action after ].<ref name=Parnass/><ref name=MacGillis>{{cite news |title=This Is How the NRA Ends: A bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived |first=Alec |last=MacGillis |url=http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113292/nras-end-real-gun-control-movement-has-arrived |newspaper=] |date=28 May 2013 |accessdate=2 August 2013}}</ref> In December 2013, Moms Demand Action announced that it had joined forces with ], a bipartisan coalition of over 1,000 mayors that advocates for more gun control.<ref name=MacKenzie/><ref name=Moms131219/> |
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In her former career as a communications executive, Watts' experience ranged from being public affairs officer for ] Governor ], the ], the Missouri Department of Economic Development, Vice President of Corporate and Public Affairs at ], Director of Global and Public Affairs at ] Corporation, Director of Global Communications for ], and then Vice President of Corporate Communications at ], the nation’s largest health insurance corporation.<ref name="prnewswire">{{cite news |title=Launch of New Public Relations Agency, VoxPop Public Relations, LLC; Shannon Troughton Named 40 Under 40 by PR Week |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/launch-of-new-public-relations-agency-voxpop-public-relations-llc-shannon-troughton-named-40-under-40-by-pr-week-65339842.html |magazine=] |date=December 8, 2008 | accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref> |
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