Countless demonstrators plunged on Washington and at numerous shows across. the United States on Saturday to demand that administrators pass. guideline highlighted checking weapon ruthlessness keeping last month’s butcher at a Texas grade school.
In the nation’s capital, facilitators with March. for Our Lives (MFOL) evaluated that 40,000. people gathered at the National Mall near the Washington. Monument under periodic light downpour. The gun safety group was founded by student survivors of the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school.
Courtney Haggerty, a 41-year-old research librarian from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, traveled to Washington with her 10-year-old daughter, Cate, and 7-year-old son, Graeme.Haggerty said the December 2012 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when a gunman killed 26 people, mostly six- and seven-year-olds, came one day after her daughter’s first birthday.
“It left me raw,” she said. “I can’t believe she’s going to be 11, and we’re still doing this.”
Kay Klein, a 65-year-old instructor mentor from Fairfax. Virginia, who surrendered as of late. said Americans should eliminate lawmakers who won’t take action in November’s midterm races. at the point when control of Congress will be being referred to.
“If we truly care about children and about families, we need to vote,” she said.
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Constitution’s Second Amendment right to bear arms. Speakers at the Washington rally included David Hogg, a Parkland survivor and co-founder of MFOL; Becky Pringle and Randi Weingarten, the presidents of the two largest U.S. teachers unions; and Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C.
“Just knowing that there’s a possibility that can happen in my own school terrifies me,” Phillip said. “A lot of kids are getting numb to this to the point they feel hopeless.”
“People are able to get military-grade guns in America,” she said. “It’s absolutely absurd.”
