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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2022 18:23:43 GMT
March For Our Lives in Parkland 6,178 views Jun 11, 2022 CBS4's Joe Gorchow was at a rally for gun reform in Parkland on Saturday.
Thousands of people are expected to rally in Washington D.C. and hundreds of other cities today for an event called March For Our Lives following recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde.
Organizers of the rallies say they are tired of repeated Congressional inaction for stricter gun laws.
"The movement is not anti-gun or pro-gun. It is pro-peace," David Hogg told CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns.
Hogg co-founded March for our Lives after surviving the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
"Americans are tired and fed up and we don't want to send our kids to school in bulletproof backpacks and schools that look like prisons," said Hogg.
In a preview of today's anti-gun violence rally, activists laid out 2,280 schoolbooks and broken pencils on the Washington Mall – representing the number of children that have been killed by gun violence in the last 14 months.
In recent years, gun control activism has led to some changes to gun laws at the state level, but federal legislation has long been elusive.
"To me, the glass is half full. I am optimistic at this moment," Kris Brown, President of The Brady Campaign, a nonprofit organization that advocates against gun violence, said.
This week, Congress passed a broad package of bills that included raising the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle to 21, a ban on high-capacity magazines, and a "red flag" bill that would allow courts to confiscate weapons from those deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.
Some say the bill stands no chance of passing the evenly divided Senate, but a bipartisan group of senators believes they are making progress on a narrower set of reforms.
"I think focusing on concerns about mental health and on people with criminal background records is an obvious area where I think we can work together," said Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas.
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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2022 18:52:46 GMT
Expert identifies trend about mass shooters that could stop them 21,080 views Jun 12, 2022 Katherine Schweit, a retired FBI agent who created the bureau's active shooter program, discusses ways to identify mass shooters before they kill. #cnn #News
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Post by Admin on Jun 11, 2022 19:41:58 GMT
March For Our Lives speaker calls for collective national healing | ABC News 879 views Jun 12, 2022 The speaker asked the crowd to "break the cycle" and "scale up mental health and trauma healing" from gun violence tragedies.
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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2022 0:58:47 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people rallied on the National Mall and across the United States on Saturday in a renewed push for gun control measures after recent deadly mass shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, that activists say should compel Congress to act. “Enough is enough,” District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser told the second March for Our Lives rally in her city. “I speak as a mayor, a mom, and I speak for millions of Americans and America’s mayors who are demanding that Congress do its job. And its job is to protect us, to protect our children from gun violence.” Speaker after speaker in Washington called on senators, who are seen as a major impediment to legislation, to act or face being voted out of office, especially given the shock to the nation’s conscience after 19 children and two teachers were killed May 24 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. “If our government can’t do anything to stop 19 kids from being killed and slaughtered in their own school, and decapitated, it’s time to change who is in government,” said David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 shooting that killed 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. A co-founder of the March For Our Lives organization that was created after that shooting and held its first rally in Washington not long afterward, Hogg led the crowd in chants of “Vote them out.” Another Parkland survivor and group co-founder, X Gonzalez, delivered an impassioned, profanity-laced plea to Congress for change. “We are being murdered,” they screamed and implored Congress to “act your age, not your shoe size.” Added Yolanda King, granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr.: “This time is different because this isn’t about politics. It’s about morality. Not right and left, but right and wrong, and that doesn’t just mean thoughts and prayers. That means courage and action.” Manuel Oliver, whose son, Joaquin, was killed in the Parkland shooting, called on students “to avoid going back to school until our elected leaders stop avoiding the crisis of gun violence in America and start acting to save our lives.”
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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2022 6:28:07 GMT
Nationwide protests take place against gun violence 4,771 views Jun 12, 2022 Thousands turned out in cities across the country.
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