Thousands of people were rallying in the nation's capital and around the country Saturday to advocate for stricter gun control laws after a recent spate of mass shootings.
, when 20 first graders and six adults were massacred nearly a decade ago in Newtown, Connecticut – motivated them to come back to March for Our Lives.
“I've wanted to be an educator my whole life," Hier said."I became an educator and I'm now a teacher and I do not want to lose my life in the classroom one day, protecting my children." Melissa Stein, a 42-year-old educator at Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland, said she came to the march out of fear for her students and children. As a mother, Stein said she is horrified at the thought of her daughters in a mass shooting, but also the thought of experiencing one herself as a teacher.
“Every year [at school] we tell each other about their hopes and dreams and I was so sad because they had a whole life to live,” she said.The mood in Parkland was angry but determined
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