GUN FACT

May 2004 marks the first Million Mom March since 2000; CA-based MMM founder Mary Leigh Blek lost her 19-year-old son to a random New York City shooting.

GUN MYTH

Men are better shots than women. Instructors, both of civilians and law enforcement officers, agree: women take direction, remain calm and handle firearms as competently, and often with higher rates of accuracy, as men.