mobilizations to demand greater gun control from Congress

mobilizations to demand greater gun control from Congress

The main one was that of the capital, Washington DC, which was convened together with the iconic george washington monumentthe obelisk that stands in the center of the city a short distance from the White House and between the Capitol and the Abraham Lincoln Memorial.

“It’s time to return to the streets”asked March for Our Livesthe movement founded by victims and survivors of the Parkland High School massacre in southern Florida, which had already organized a massive protest in Washington in March 2018.

https://twitter.com/AMarch4OurLives/status/1535675430606360576

May 24th, An 18-year-old man killed 19 children and two teachers with a semi-automatic assault rifle. at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, near the Mexican border.

This school shooting, the deadliest in nearly a decade, came just ten days after a self-proclaimed white supremacist of the same age shot ten people, mainly African-Americans, in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

These latest massacres, and the hundreds of shootings that don’t make the headlines, renewed calls for tighter restrictions in a country where these attacks rose more than 50% last yearaccording to the FBI.

Source: Ambito

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