Tens of 1000's of individuals rallied within the nation’s capital and different cities throughout the U.S. on Saturday to demand stronger gun management.
“Sufficient is sufficient,” Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser advised a crowd on the second March for Our Lives rally in her metropolis. “I converse as a mayor, a mother, and I converse for tens of millions of People and America’s mayors who're demanding that Congress do its job. And its job is to guard us, to guard our kids from gun violence.”
The primary March for Our Lives rally was held in 2018 following a college taking pictures in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 individuals useless. This week’s occasions have been organized by March for Our Lives co-founder and Parkland taking pictures survivor David Hogg after final month’s college taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas.
Within the Texas taking pictures, 19 kids and two academics have been killed by an 18-year-old armed with an AR-15. Police waited greater than an hour earlier than getting into the classroom to confront the shooter, partly as a result of they feared for their very own security. An Uvalde pediatrician advised Congress this week that the bullets tore aside the our bodies of the youngsters and left a few of them decapitated.
“If our authorities can’t do something to cease 19 children from being killed and slaughtered in their very own college, and decapitated, it’s time to vary who's in authorities,” Hogg advised a D.C. crowd.
The Uvalde shooter obtained his AR-15 legally the day after he turned 18. Earlier this week, the Home of Representatives permitted a package deal of gun management payments that would partly increase the age requirement for many rifle gross sales from 18 to 21.
Rallies are scheduled in additional than 400 U.S. cities in almost all 50 states, based on the March for Our Lives web site.
Try some pictures from Saturday’s marches:
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