Thousands of people are expected to rally in the nation’s capital and across the country on Saturday during the second March for Our Lives rally.
After a wave of even more mass shootings in recent weeks, including in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, protesters are calling for lawmakers to take action – and they’re not the only ones.
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People participate in the second March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in front of the Washington Monument, Saturday, June 11, 2022, in Washington. The rally is a successor to the 2018 march organized by student protestors after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
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This time, organizers have focused holding smaller marches at an estimated 300 locations, including cities in Nebraska, Iowa, California, Connecticut, Michigan and Florida.
There are also some scheduled in Europe.
The initial march and youth-led movement were spurred by the deadly Feb. 14, 2018, shooting massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
“After marching in 2018, states passed over 150 gun laws that saved thousands of lives. Today, we DEMAND a national change. And tell our elected officials: YOUR INACTION IS KILLING US,” the organization tweeted.
While the House of Representatives has passed bills that would raise the age limit to buy semi-automatic weapons and establish federal “red flag” laws, such initiatives had traditionally either stalled or been heavily watered down in the Senate.
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Democratic and Republican senators had hoped to reach an agreement on the issue this week and talked on Friday, but had not announced an accord by early evening.
There have been more mass shootings than days in 2022, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive.
Fox News’ Timothy Nerozzi, Andrew Mark Miller and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
