Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom of five in suburban Indiana on December 14, 2012 — the day 20 children and six educators were killed by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn.

Her opposition brings guns to her events, yet Shannon Watts has led Moms Demand Action to a 93% success rate in beating the NRA in state legislatures. Facebook Announces New Measures To Prevent ...

– Start the fire. Shannon Watts is best known as the woman who tackled gun violence. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, which killed 20 children, Watts started Moms Demand Action. More than ...

Shannon Watts, 48, is the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a gun violence prevention nonprofit she started after the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012. The organization is part ...

Shannon Watts talks about starting Moms Demand Action on Facebook after the Sandy Hook tragedy. Nobel Peace Prize Chair Explains Why Donald Trump Did Not Win Tim Curry’s wry humor was on full display ...

Shannon Watts's work is as important today as it was in 2012, when she founded Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement fighting for public safety measures that can protect people from gun violence, ...

"I always felt, from the very beginning, that moms were the yin to the gun lobby's yang," Shannon Watts tells PEOPLE Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom of five in suburban Indiana on December 14, ...