Shannon Watts

Shannon Watts is the founder of the gun safety group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

How a Buddhist Mom and Activist Took on the National Rifle Association

With Shannon Watts

How a Buddhist Mom and Activist Took on the National Rifle Association

In the latest episode of Tricycle Talks, Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, tells Tricycle’s editor-in-chief James Shaheen and cohost Sharon Salzberg about what it’s like to work with communities afflicted by gun violence and how her Buddhist meditation practice has kept her in the fight despite Twitter trolls and fierce pushback from the National Rifle Association.

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