After Sandy Hook, we'll never be silent on guns again

[SecularMotion]

(CNN) Three years ago today, I was sitting at my kitchen counter, devastated and outraged by the tragedy that had played out on my television: 20 first-graders and six educators were gunned down by a heavily armed gunman in the sanctity of an American elementary school -- Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

As the day went on, my sadness and anger turned into resolve. I didn't know quite what to do, but I knew I had to do something to prevent this from happening to my children or to anyone's children.

At the time, I was a stay-at-home mom of five living in Indianapolis. Because I had no experience in politics or activism, my first instinct was to look for an existing organization of women taking on the issue of gun violence in America, but my search turned up empty. Where was the Mothers Against Drunk Driving of gun violence prevention?

I decided to try and reach out to other American moms who I knew in my gut were feeling the same way as I was. I opened my laptop in my kitchen and started a Facebook page. That day, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America was born.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/14/opinions/watts-sandy-hook-anniversary/

[GGJohn]

1. Oh jeezus, not her again.

[DonP]

2. Well, she has been very effective in those years ... at creating new gun owners

And I'm sure she's doing it out of the "resolve" in her heart and it has nothing to do with being an employee of a Racist 1% Billionaire.

Maybe as effective as she was when she was flacking GMO food to your children.

[beevul]

3. Did someone say you would be?

Be as loud as you like, but know while you are, that less and less people are buying what you're shoveling.

[Eleanors38]

4. "Silent on guns Again?" Since when has 'we' been silent?

Nearly a half-century has passed since the first rattlings of the modern gun control/ban/confiscation elements started beating the war drums. (The main reason these elites got anything done in the 60s was when the '68 GCA was enacted after a wave of ghettos insurrections during that time. As gun control advocate Robert Sherrill said at the time, the Act was "passed not to control guns but to control blacks."



Yep. From the beginnings of Colonial-era gun control, through Jim Crow, right on up to the Rolling Stones, the issue has been about controlling minorities and immigrants.

[ManiacJoe]

5. If we could just get them to be knowledgeable on guns....

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. Was there ever a time when pro-control was silent?

Really?

[Duckhunter935]

7. stay at home mom, lol

No experiance, lol. She was an advertising executive and seems to be afraid to point out that vast experience with Monsanto.

[Kang Colby]

8. I call her Bannin' Shannon.

One day I'll get around to typing up an in depth post on this subject, but suffice it to say I believe she was hired by Bloomturd specifically for her role as an expert in defending unpopular companies during periods of significant controversy. And she has plenty of experience coming from Monsanto and WellPoint. She according to her LinkedIn profile, "managed issues and crises for clients, including Monsanto Company, BP Amoco, Bayer Corporation, Firestone, McDonald’s, Applebee’s, Purdue Pharma, Osco, BASF, and Hallmark, Inc." during her time at a PR firm.

What do you do when you need to sell GMOs? Who do you call if your company's tires are blowing out and killing families? Did you just spill 200 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico? "Who ya gonna call?" , to quote the Ghostbusters movie. You call someone like Shannon Watts who is an expert in a marketing field known as "crisis communications." She is a professional in turning lemons into lemonade as they say or at least keeping your stock price from tanking into oblivion.

She is the perfect executive to pitch an unpopular idea, while also effectively managing communications during periods of national turmoil. Why does this matter? Well, who would be better to take an unpopular concept like gun control and pitch it to the masses? Do you think she just accidentally became a gun control advocate? No. I doubt she feels strongly about gun control one way or the other. This "cause" is just another Firestone or BP for her....nothing more than a paycheck.

[virginia mountainman]

9. I wonder, how long it would last..

If blomberg's check book was to dry up?

[DonP]

10. They were already fading when he picked them up

Maybe they'd last as long as the American Hunters and Sportsman's Association.

That "Counter to the NRA" lasted about 15 minutes.

When Bloomberg finally kicks the bucket, I wonder how long it will be funded before his kids start fighting over the estate and all funds are locked up.

I'm sure Shannon will just keep flying all over the country and buying those expensive "interview outfits" and limo services on her own money.