`Gun Safety Moms' hope to be 2014's soccer moms

[SecularMotion]

WASHINGTON — Women active in the post-Newtown effort to build voter support around stricter gun laws have an ambitious plan to turn “Gun Safety Moms” into the Soccer Moms of the 2014 election cycle.

But even with an infusion of $50 million from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, motivating American moms to vote on guns faces a steep uphill climb against the battle-hardened National Rifle Association and its voter-turnout machine.

Shannon Watts, an Indianapolis mother of five who founded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America after the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting by posting a Facebook page, is undaunted.

“The NRA has had a 30-year head start,” said Watts, who describes herself as an “accidental activist” on Twitter. “We’ve never before had a grassroots organization to go toe-to-toe with the gun lobby. We have that now.”

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/05/04/3623049/x2018gun-sensex2019-moms-hope.html#storylink=cpy

[Hoyt]

1. Takes a lot of guts to go up against gun fanciers too willing to intimidate unarmed ladies.

These smiling -- supposedly responsible, law-abiding -- gun lovers showed up to intimidate 4 unarmed Moms in a Texas Restaurant in November. They sort of look like the crazy perps in episodes of Criminal Minds.






Here's most recent photo of supposedly law-abiding gun group intimidating customers and staff at a restaurant. Notice that this group proudly flies the Tbag flag of hatred and bigotry. That's quite common among folks into guns.

[hack89]

2. Until they can prove that they can turnout voters they are merely a curiosity. nt

[Hoyt]

4. Then why is gun culture stalking/intimidating them?

[hack89]

5. Are they?

one or two jerks =/= every gun owner.

My point still stands - until they can show they can mobilize voters politicians will not pay attention to them.

[Gothmog]

3. The local Moms Demand Action chapter is well organized

I have met with the local Moms Demand Action group. They are dedicated and well organized.