El Segundo moms lead common sense gun law movement
by Yvonne Liu El Segundo moms Joanna Bowe, Shannon Crouch, and Julia Cohen lead the Los Angeles South Bay chapter of Moms Demand Action (MDA), a grassroots national group advocating for “common sense, middle of the road” gun laws. They came together after the Las Vegas shooting. Fifty-eight individuals died and hundreds more were injured in the October 2017 attack. Bowe was a high school student when 12 teens and a teacher were killed at Columbine High School 20 years ago. She hoped then the mass shooting was an anomaly. Sadly, it wasn’t. Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Las Vegas, Parkland and 60 other mass shootings have taken place in the United States since Columbine. What follows a mass shooting has become routine: 24-hour news coverage, thoughts, and prayers from government officials, cries for stricter gun laws, and then slowly but surely, public attention fades until the next shooting. After the Las Vegas shootings, Cohen invited a group of women to her home to hear from two shooting survivors. Fifty-eight individuals died and hundreds more were injured in the October 2017 attack in Las Vegas. “It was a moment when we just had to do something,” Bowe said. Then last February…
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