Moms For Gun Control

If there were a recipe for creating a late-blooming activist--take a devoted parent, add a worst nightmare, mix with official intransigence--Carole Price, 37, would be the final product. The Maryland mother of three says she "hadn't organized anything more complicated than a car pool" until gun violence ripped into her family. On Aug. 20, 1998, Price's son John, 13, was accidentally killed by a 9-year-old neighbor boy wielding a 9-mm Luger pistol that he had found in his home. Since that day, Price and her husband John have put themselves on the front lines of the war over gun safety.

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