United States: thousands of demonstrators to "stop the massacre" of firearms

New York, Washington, Chicago, Parkland… Thousands of Americans took to the streets on Saturday to “stop the massacre” of firearms and demand better supervision of these weapons after recent killings, including that in a school in Texas on May 24 which shocked the United States.

Saturday's call for action came from March for Our Lives, the movement founded by victims and survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which had already organized a huge demonstration in March 2018. in Washington.

In Washington, crowds gathered in the grounds of the National Mall.

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"How much more?"

or “A child is worth more than your gun”: protesters in Washington are demanding change.

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In Washington, a protester displays the portrait of a shooting victim.

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In New York, a procession crosses the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Protesters in New York paid tribute to the many victims of school shootings across the country.

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“Today we march, tomorrow we vote,” says a protester on her placard in Chicago.

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"Make America safe again?"

In Parkland, Florida, Americans have hijacked the slogan of Donald Trump, in a city where a killing had claimed the lives of 17 people in a high school in 2018.

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