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On August 10, 1999, Donna Dees-Thomases watched as every parent's nightmare unfolded on TV: A gunman had shot and injured three young children at a California day camp. "My heart was in my throat," she says. "Those children could have been mine." Outrage and fear led Dees-Thomases, 46, a mother of two from Short Hills, NJ, to organize the Million Mom March on Mother's Day in 2000. A stand against the 30,000 deaths and 75,000 gun-related injuries a year in the United States, it drew an estimated 750,000 to Washington, DC. Now the second Million Mom March, set for May...

"Halt the Assault": Million Mom Marchers to Return to D.C. After 4 Years, Thousands of Lost Lives; America's Landmark Assault Weapons Law Hangs In the Balance 4/6/2004 9:40:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National and Assignment desks Contact: Rob Wilcox of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United with the Million Mom March, 202-898-0792 WASHINGTON, April 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Across America, mothers and others are organizing buses, stapling flyers in the supermarkets, calling into radio shows and organizing local press conferences. They're securing entertainment talent, stuffing envelopes in church basements and calling their representatives in Congress. The message to...

Avowing ``there is no greater threat to homeland security'' than urban combat assault weapons, the Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling on victims of violence to fight for gun safety laws. ``There is no socially useful purpose for AK-47s or Uzis,'' the charismatic civil rights champion said yesterday, speaking at a Grove Hall rally for next month's Million Mom March in Washington, D.C. This year's fourth annual procession, to step off Mother's Day, May 9, will serve as a wakeup call to Congress and President Bush [related, bio]. A federal law passed in 1994 banning the sale of assault weapons is...

DURHAM -- A group of moms presented some staggering statistics about gun violence and children in North Carolina and Durham at the old North Holloway Street school Wednesday afternoon. Between 1999 and 2001, 131 children under the age of 17 died from gunshot wounds in North Carolina, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Durham County had the second-highest number of youth gun deaths of all N.C. counties and the highest per capita percentage of gun deaths in the state. Only Mecklenburg County reported more youth gun deaths. Anna Lee Mosley, president of the West Triangle Chapter of...