Don't Mess With the Moms

摘要

Betsy storm has never lost a child to a gunshot. She's never been the victim of violence herself. But she's had enough. The mother of two in a tony Chicago suburb, Storm remembers clearly the day in 1988 that Laurie Dann walked into nearby Hubbard Woods Elementary School and shot six students, one fatally. She saw the same tragedy play out in Paducah, Jones-boro, Littleton, Granada Hills. The 46-year-old Storm never knew what to do about it until she read a blurb online about the Million Mom March. Then she began tacking up fliers in schools, churches and synagogues, hoping to get enough women together for a bus to Washington. Last week Storm managed to fill the last of her bus's 57 seats with determined women. "There are many more mothers than there are gun lobbyists," she says. "You can't mess with a million mothers trying to protect their families."