Moms Mark Anniversary Of Sandy Hook Elementary Tragedy With Nationwide "No...
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Release Television Ad in Honor of Newtown Victims; Sponsoring Week of Action Asking Congress to Act on Background Checks Download image INDIANAPOLIS, Dec....
View ArticleMoms Demand Action Releases Devastating Ad Timed To Anniversary Of Newtown...
The gun control group Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America has released a searing new commercial, timed to the one-year anniversary of the Newtown school shooting on Dec. 14, that pleads with...
View ArticleNewtown Pleads For Privacy As Sandy Hook Anniversary Looms
WASHINGTON -- As the one-year anniversary approaches for the murders of 26 students and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., many groups representing victims' families are...
View ArticleYou Can’t Fight Guns With Silence
The shock of the gun massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six adults last December in Newtown, Conn., has largely dissipated in Congress, which proved unresponsive to proposals for stronger gun safety....
View ArticleChilling new gun control commercial debuts with anniversary of Newtown...
An unnerving and powerful new gun control commercial is set to be released next week to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Conn. Sandy Hook school shooting. The 60-second ad spot,...
View ArticleGun Control Groups Remain Hopeful One Year After Newtown
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Having already lost her 6-year-old son, Nicole Hockley insists she won't lose the fight to reduce gun violence — no matter how long it takes. She is among a group of "accidental...
View ArticleNewtown school shooting 911 calls to be released Wednesday
December 2, 2013 -- Updated 2327 GMT (0727 HKT) (CNN) -- The audio recordings of 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will be released Wednesday afternoon, after a state attorney...
View ArticleAmerican Moms One Year After Newtown: No More Silence About Gun Violence
Over the past year, I've introduced myself across the country again and again as an Indiana mom of five children who became an accidental activist on December 14, 2012. In just one year, what started...
View ArticleFor Newtown's gun-control families, a year of mixed results
It seemed simply another sad fact of a terrible day – that Newtown, Conn., would become synonymous with meaningless violence at its worst. Yet a year later, Newtown is becoming associated with a...
View ArticleKristin Goss comments: For Newtown's gun-control families, a year of mixed...
(Source: Duke University School of Law) Newtown, Conn., families who became gun control activists after the horror of last December are today part of a revitalized movement. Their big push for reform...
View ArticleNo More Silence: Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Mayors...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday, December 14, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Mayors Against Illegal Guns will gather at over 50 events in more than 35...
View ArticleObama honors Newtown victims a year later, renews gun control push
On the one year anniversary of the mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013 President Barack Obama and the nation remembered the 26...
View ArticlePelosi Statement on One-Year Anniversary of the Shooting in Newtown (Nancy...
(Source: Nancy Pelosi) Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616 Washington, D.C. - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the one-year anniversary of the horrific shooting...
View ArticleNewtown plans quiet anniversary of school shooting
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — President Barack Obama called on the nation to help prevent future violence in an address released on Saturday's anniversary of the school shooting in Newtown, which planned a...
View ArticleCongressman Tierney Comments on the First Anniversary of the Newtown School...
(Source: John Tierney) Washington, DC- On the eve of his address to the Mom's Demand Action remembrance rally in Boston, Congressman John F. Tierney today released the following statement on the first...
View ArticleUPDATED: Newtown, nation mark somber anniversary
UPDATE NEWTOWN, Conn. - Bells tolled 26 times to honor the children and educators killed one year ago in a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School as local churches held memorial services and...
View ArticleSustain Moms Demand Action with a donation this Christmas
Saturday, December 14 marks one year since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Moms Demand Action will commemorate the anniversary with No More Silence, a campaign to honor the...
View ArticleNewtown Didn't Change Lawmakers' Opinions On Gun Control, It Hardened Them
WASHINGTON -- It's been a year since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that left 20 first-graders and six staff dead, which means it's been a year of congressional inaction in response to one...
View ArticleEven horror of Sandy Hook not enough to bring about sensible gun regulation
War weary. That's what Obama said America was, in refusing to support an action to stop Syria from using chemical weapons on civilians. But apparently America is not weary enough of children being...
View Article>Bells toll in Newtown for school shooting victims
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Bells are tolling in Newtown, Conn., to mark the anniversary of a shooting massacre that killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The bells rang 26 times Saturday at St....
View ArticleBells toll in Newtown for school shooting victims
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Bells are tolling in Newtown, Conn., to mark the anniversary of a shooting massacre that killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The bells rang 26 times Saturday at St....
View ArticleSandy Hook: one year on, campaigners prepare for new push on gun control
Shooting of 20 young children and six staff has failed to produce breakthrough on gun laws that seemed possible after tragedy Children play around a Christmas tree in Newtown, Connecticut, as the town...
View ArticleMedia vow to remember Newtown tragedy in respectful manner
updated 4:04 PM EST, Fri December 13, 2013 Candles burn next to a lighted tree at a makeshift shrine in Newtown, Connecticut, commemorating the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary...
View ArticleSombre remembrances mark anniversary of Sandy Hook
One of the 6-year-olds was so sweet his teacher said he should have come to school wrapped in a bow. Another loved princess tea parties, Justin Bieber and trips to New York. Still another, who rode...
View ArticleSandy Hook marks anniversary of deadly shooting
NEW YORK - One of the six-year-olds was so sweet his teacher said he should have come to school wrapped in a bow. Another loved princess tea parties, Justin Bieber and trips to New York. Still...
View ArticleSomber remembrances mark anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting
By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - One of the 6-year-olds was so sweet his teacher said he should have come to school wrapped in a bow. Another loved princess tea parties, Justin Bieber and trips to...
View ArticleColorado moms demand action on guns after latest school shooting
DENVER — Colorado moms are strengthening their fight against gun violence with a push for lawmakers to put stronger regulations in place. The “No More Silence” campaign is marked by television ads and...
View ArticleThe year after Newtown
Chris Murphy, a freshman senator from Connecticut, made his maiden speech on the Senate floor on April 10. It was the day the Senate was set to vote on a bill that would make background checks...
View ArticleU.S. Mayors' gun control group merges with Moms Demand Action
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a gun control group founded and financed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced on Thursday it will merge with another gun control group, Moms...
View ArticleMayors Against Illegal Guns And Moms Demand Action To Join Forces, Unite A...
Merger Brings Together Americans From Every Background to Fight For Common-Sense Reforms to Keep Guns Out of Dangerous Hands WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mayors Against Illegal...
View ArticleNewtown Tragedy: The Bell Not Tolled
Almost one year ago, I started a piece about the Newtown tragedy by saying, "Last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, the bells at Trinity Episcopal Church chimed 26 times. At 9:30am, people across the...
View ArticleMayor Finch Calls upon Houses of Worship to Ring their Bells to Honor the...
(Source: City of Bridgeport, CT) 12/13/2013 - Mayor Finch Calls upon Houses of Worship to Ring their Bells to Honor the Lives Lost on December 14, 2012 BRIDGEPORT, CT (December 13, 2013) - To mark the...
View ArticleSC moms remembering Newtown school shootings
GREENVILLE, S.C. Some South Carolina mothers are holding an event to remember the mass...
View ArticleStatement on the Shooting Death of Colorado High School Student Claire Davis...
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As mothers, we are devastated by the death of Claire Davis, a 17-year-old high school student who was shot and killed in the sanctity of her...
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