5 Things to Do After El Paso From Get-It-Done Gun Control Activist Shannon Watts

Sharon Waxman

On the very day that 20 innocent lives were snuffed out in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, 2,000 volunteer gun control activists had gathered in Washington, D.C., to grow their movement at an annual training conference on Saturday. Barely had Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts tweeted out a photo of a crowd of enthusiastic men and women in their bright red T-shirts from a hotel ballroom, that a pale young man wearing glasses and tan khakis pulled up to the El Paso Walmart and — as security footage shows — began shooting at shoppers with his assault rifle. This is the @NRA’s worst nightmare. Nearly 2,000 @MomsDemand and #StudentsDemandAction leaders learning to organize to end gun violence and the gun lobby’s influence. This is only half of our leadership team and a fraction of our hundreds of thousands of volunteers. #GSU19 ???????????? pic.twitter.com/e4sfpP59MV — Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 3, 2019 #massshooting El Paso Walmart shooter identified as Patrick Crusius of Dallas. And he just turned 21 this week pic.twitter.com/4FlnfAYMZq — #ElPasoStrong #GunControl (@JuliaStyles1Dxx) August 3, 2019 Also Read: Moms Demand Action Members Rally Outside White House After El Paso Massacre The country recoiled as we learned of the latest...