Seattle’s Child launched its legislative coverage several years ago after I drove by a large group of women waving signs at an overpass on my drive home. The women, mostly gray-haired and smiling, hoisted signs that said “No Ghost Guns!,” “End Violence Now,” and “Save Our Grandbabies!”
The banner strung on the railing announced “Grandmothers Against Gun Violence.” The day I saw the grandmothers, there had been yet another school shooting; seven more dead teens.
The Seattle-based advocacy group, which belongs to those banner words, was the first I visited to learn more about Washington’s gun laws and the need for gun regulation when we started reporting on the annual gathering of state lawmakers in Olympia each January. Since then, the group’s legislative liaison, Jennifer Dolan-Waldman, has helped us track gun legislation efforts and offer parents ways to take meaningful action on the issue, regardless of their position…