Washington — After Uvalde, After Buffalo, Parkland, Newtown, El Paso, and after hundreds of mass shootings over the last two decades, protesters gathered in Washington DC and cities across the country on Saturday for gun violence. I am against.
Thousands of people were expected to blame the beatings of mass shootings in the United States and update federal law calls to limit the use of military weapons that made many of them possible. ..
The March for our lives A student-sponsored demo Ripley in 2018 with hundreds of thousands of participants after a 19-year-old gunner fired at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 17 others. ..
This demonstration follows a shooting last month at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where 10 blacks died in a Buffalo supermarket, 19 school children and 2 teachers died.
“No more,” said David Hogg, co-founder of March for Hour Lives and survivor of the shooting at Parkland. Said on twitter.. “It’s time for Democrats, Republicans, gun owners, and non-gun owners to come together,” and begin to focus on what they can agree on.
Saturday’s protests will take place in more than 300 cities across the country and in a few parts of Europe. At the Washington Monument, the capital, a major protest site, survivors of mass shootings, teacher representatives, civil rights advocates, and elected officials address the crowd.
Bipartisan negotiations on legislation to curb mass shootings are underway in the Senate, but Republicans who have blocked such legislation for years said the murder was a mental illness and other school security deficiencies. They continue to say that it is the result of a problem and not a weapon. Senate talks are said to focus on these allegations and background checks on arms purchases.