But such initiatives have traditionally stalled or been heavily watered down in the Senate. The House has passed bills that would raise the age limit to buy semi-automatic weapons and establish federal “red flag” laws. On Tuesday, actor Matthew McConaughey appeared at the White House briefing room to press for gun legislation and made highly personal remarks about the violence in his hometown of Uvalde. She told lawmakers how she covered herself with a dead classmate's blood to avoid being shot. Among them was Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old girl who survived the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Survivors of mass shootings and other incidents of gun violence have lobbied legislators and testified on Capitol Hill this week. The protest comes at a time of renewed political activity on guns and a crucial moment for possible action in Congress. “This work is not just about D.C., it’s not just about senators.” “We want to make sure that this work is happening across the country,” said Daud Mumin, co-chairman of the march's board of directors and a recent graduate of Westminster College in Salt Lake City. This time, organizers are focusing on holding smaller marches at an estimated 300 locations. That's far less than the original march, which filled downtown Washington with more than 200,000 people.
And if not, we’ll be voting them out.”Ībout 50,000 participants are predicted to turn out in the District of Columbia, with rain in the forecast. "This will be a demonstration to show that us as Americans, we’re not stopping anytime soon until Congress does their jobs.
“Right now we are angry,” said Mariah Cooley, a March For Our Lives board member and a senior at Washington's Howard University. Now with recent shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, bringing gun control back into the national conversation, organizers of this weekend's events say the time is right to renew their push for a national overhaul. The second March For Our Lives rally will take place Saturday in front of the Washington Monument, a successor to the 2018 march organized by student protestors after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. WASHINGTON - Angered by the unrelenting toll from gun violence, tens of thousands of people are expected at rallies this weekend in the nation’s capital and around the United States demanding that Congress pass meaningful changes to gun laws.
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