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Thousands of people are expected to demonstrate for greater gun control following the recent mass shootings in the US.

2022-06-11T11:43:53.547Z


Organizers of the 'March for Our Lives' say lawmakers must take notice of shifts in public opinion and eventually enact sweeping reforms.


Thousands of protesters are expected to gather this Saturday in Washington DC, and in other cities across the country, as part of a renewed push for gun control nationwide.

Motivated by a new surge in mass shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, protesters say lawmakers must take note of shifting public opinion and finally enact sweeping reforms.

Organizers hope the second

March

for Our Lives

rally will draw

some

50,000 protesters to the Washington Monument.

That's far less than the original 2018 march, which packed downtown Washington with more than 200,000 people.

This time, organizers are focusing on holding smaller marches in about

300 locations.

[Police knew there were children still alive in the classroom with the killer but did not act.

This is how the head of the operation in Uvalde justifies it]

“We want to make sure this work is done across the country,” Daud Moomin, co-chairman of the march's board of directors and a recent graduate of Westminster College in Salt Lake City, told The Associated Press.

"This job is not just DC's, it's not just senators," he noted.

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The first march was sparked by the killing of 14 students and three staff members at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14, 2018. That massacre sparked the creation of the youth-led movement

March for Our Lives

, which managed to pressure the Republican-dominated Florida government to enact sweeping gun control reforms.

Parkland students then took aim at gun laws in other states and across the country, launching the

March for Our Lives

on Washington on March 24, 2018.

Now, with yet another spate of mass shootings, organizers of this weekend's events say

the time is right to renew pressure for a national review of gun control.

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"Right now we're angry

," said Mariah Cooley, a March for Our Lives board member and a senior at Howard University in Washington.

“This will be a rally to show that we as Americans

are not going to stop at any time until Congress does its job.

And if not, we will kick them out,” she added.

The protest comes at a time of renewed political activity on guns and at a crucial time for possible action in Congress.

Mass shooting survivors have lobbied lawmakers and testified on Capitol Hill this week.

Among them was Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old girl who survived the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

She told lawmakers how she covered herself in the blood of a dead classmate to avoid being shot.

On Tuesday, actor Matthew McConaughey appeared in the White House briefing room to push for gun legislation and made very personal comments about the violence in his hometown of Uvalde.

Workers prepare for the March for Our Lives rally on the National Mall near the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday, June 10, 2022. Alex Brandon / AP

The House of Representatives approved a bill that seeks to increase the minimum age for the purchase of semi-automatic rifles to 21 and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds.

But these initiatives have traditionally stalled or been watered down in the Senate.

Democratic and Republican senators had hoped to reach an agreement this week on a framework to address the issue and spoke on Friday, but as of early afternoon they had not announced a deal.

[The chief of the Uvalde school police did not have his radio during the massacre]

Referring to the Senate as "the place where substantive action will die," Moomin said the new march is intended to send a message to lawmakers that public opinion on gun control is changing under their feet.

“If they are not on our side, there are going to be consequences: kick them out of office and make their lives hell when they are in office,” he said.

Source: telemundo

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