It remains unclear what action, if any, the federal government will take on gun control.
Protesters marched in cities across the country Thursday calling on lawmakers to pass gun control measures in response to a series of mass shootings, with the events headlined by a rally in Washington, D.C., where speakers urged Congress to take action.... [+]More than 400 rallies were planned in cities across the U.S. on Saturday, less than three weeks after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Most of the events were organized by March for Our Lives, a group formed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, with a stated mission of"lobbying Congress to close loopholes and pass common-sense legislation to save lives." Speakers at the D.C. rally included Mayor Muriel Bowser, Parkland survivor David Hogg and Garnell Whitfield Jr., whose mother died in a racially motivated shooting that left 10 dead at a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store last month.
Organizers hoped to attract 50,000 people to the D.C. event, but the actual crowd appeared in the low thousands amid rainy conditions, according to theInitial March for Our Lives protests took place following the 2018 Parkland massacre, with up to 2.
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