Roswell Part of National Sandy Hook Memorial Event

One day after the shootings, Shannon Watts founded the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

It started out as a Facebook page, now the grass roots campaign has 125,000 members in all 50 states. 

Shortly after Sandy Hook, Watts was part of a widespread effort to get a bill passed.

That attempt failed.

She’s been in Washington D.C. this week, trying to get lawmakers to focus on gun control and other reforms.

“Even if they can’t get a winning vote, we want a vote called again.  So that before the midterms, we have all legislators on record where they stand on common sense gun laws, like background checks.  So that moms can make the right decision when they go to the pools for the midterms,” says Watts.

While Watts is in D.C., members of her organization are holding a nationwide event that honors victims of gun violence.

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One of those ceremonies will be at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Roswell.

Piyali Cole leads the Georgia Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

“A lot of the conversation that has been going on has been controlled by organizations that are funded by gun manufacturers and we think that the conversation has to be controlled by citizens,” says Cole.

However, not everyone believes that would make a difference.

“With over 20,000 gun laws on the books, does anybody actually believe that one more law will stop it?  Let’s pass a law that says you can’t kill anybody.  Oh, wait, we’ve got one of those, don’t we?  How’s that working?” says Jerry Henry, the executive director of GeorgiaCarry.org.

Henry says even if more gun laws are passed, criminals won’t pay attention to them.

According to the most recent data available from GunPolicy.org, there were more than 1,200 gun-related deaths in Georgia in 2010.