Yesterday, hundreds of moms, grandmoms, and others were in Washington DC to take part in Moms Take the Hill Day. The event was hosted by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and offered opportunities to speak directly with legislators to urge them to sponsor, co-sponsor, and/or support common-sense policies to address gun violence in our country.
Four of us from North Carolina took part and spoke with five of our legislators whose offices accepted invitations to take meetings with us. We were joined by three South Carolinians, because all but one South Carolina legislator failed to respond to repeated attempts to schedule meetings with their constituents.
The seven of us -- Elizabeth, Bernardine, Ann, Maria del Pilar, Margaret, Lisa, and myself -- spoke with the staffs of five senators and representatives from North Carolina, and one representative who spoke with us himself. Moms Take the Hill efforts also were the subject of a Congressional press conference and were the audience for a presidential policy briefing.
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