Million Mom March

"[2] Including 150,000 to 200,000 people[citation needed] holding satellite events in more than 70 cities across the country, the total number of participants was about one million.

[5] The Million Mom March began as a grassroots movement sparked by Donna Dees-Thomases after she viewed broadcast coverage of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting in Granada Hills, California.

[6] In October 1999, she and several Tri-State activists from the New York metropolitan area held a news conference in Manhattan, where they announced their intent to march in Washington.

[9][10][11] On the anniversary of the first march, more than 100 rallies were held across the nation calling for stricter gun laws at the state level.

[18][19] In 2004, Wendy McElroy estimated that only 5,732 children under the age of 17 died in gun related deaths, "or roughly 40 percent of what MMM asserts.