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Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
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“Worse yet, the plan that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is considering as I write this book would use funds earmarked for the Student Support and Academic Enrichment program in the country’s poorest schools to buy firearms and provide firearm training.”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
“MYTH: Arming Teachers Will Make Kids Safer Fact: The push to arm teachers isn’t, at its root, about keeping kids safer. It’s about selling more guns.”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
“According to a 2016 study published in The American Journal of Medicine, our gun homicide rate is 25.2 times higher than that in other high-income countries; for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds, that rate is 49 times higher.11”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
“Everytown compiles incredible amounts of data and creates clear, compelling reports on a variety of particular aspects of gun violence—the efficacy of background checks, for example, or the relationship between gun violence and women—and publishes them at the website everytownresearch.org. Any time you want to have the latest reliable facts on gun violence on hand, make this website your first stop.”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
“This makes it incredibly ironic when the NRA accuses Moms Demand Action volunteers of being paid to show up and protest. But really, we shouldn’t be surprised—it’s a classic hallmark of manipulation and narcissism to accuse your opponent of doing the exact thing that you yourself are doing.”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
“In 2015 executive vice president of the NRA Wayne LaPierre took home $5.1 million; I took home $0. Whose motivations do you trust?”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
“You understand that it’s part of your role to make the world a better place for everyone; it’s a moral obligation that you feel not so much as a duty but as a simple fact of life.”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
“I also knew that a mom fighting to protect her children was way more powerful than a gun lobbyist fighting to protect gun manufacturers’ profits.”
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
― Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World
