Shannon Watts, founder of advocacy group Moms Demand Action, started a Twitter storm with a photo of lawmakers wearing pearls. And the gun safety campaigner says she's not done yet.
A clutch of New Hampshire lawmakers made headlines after they wore pearls to a hearing on gun legislation on Tuesday. Perceived by many gun safety activists as mockery inspired by the “pearl-clutching” of zealous campaigners, images of the men prompted a backlash on social media.
But Shannon Watts, founder of “gun sense” advocacy group Moms Demand Action, doesn’t buy this explanation. She told Newsweek it’s just one hostile incident among the many faced by anti-gun campaigners. In Oklahoma last week, gun extremists took our petition and put our names in crosshairs. Recently in Maryland, extremists showed up in shirts that said"We will not comply." And then in Nevada, a couple of weeks ago when a bill was trying to introduce background checks, gun extremists were telling our volunteers—who were crying as they told their stories about gun violence—to be quiet. One said anyone wearing our “Moms Demand Action” t-shirts should be"blown away.
The group have said before the beads are used to mock a Moms Demand Action volunteer who claimed they tried to intimidate her. I'm not surprised they're backtracking now—they never expected these photos to go viral. This is an organization that regularly engages in ad hominem attacks and falsehoods. Yesterday’s hearings saw families who have lost members to guns testify about their experiences. Which stories particularly resonated with you?
And that's the juxtaposition. We have too many lawmakers who are not taking this seriously or they just don't care.
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