'Kids are getting numb to this': Thousands rally across US demanding stricter gun laws

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The March for Our Lives organisers say around 40,000 protesters descended on Washington DC and another 450 rallies were taking place across the nation, calling for politicians to pass legislation aimed at curbing gun violence after a spate of mass shootings.

, expand background checks and implement other gun control measures, said he supported Saturday's protests.Courtney Haggerty, a 41-year-old research librarian from Lawrenceville in New Jersey, travelled to Washington for the rally with her 10-year-old daughter, Cate, and seven-year-old son, Graeme, to demand congressional action.

"This time is different because this isn't about politics. It's about morality. Not right and left, but right and wrong, and that doesn't just mean thoughts and prayers," she said.X Gonzalez wasn't shy in using strong language in their impassioned plea to Congress.10 days after another gunman murdered 10 Black people in a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in a racist attack.

Among other policies, MFOL has called for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks for those trying to purchase guns and a national licensing system, which would register gun owners. Their effort is focused on relatively modest changes, such as incentivising states to pass "red flag" laws that allow authorities to keep guns from individuals deemed a danger to others.

 

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They are called kids for a reason.

Gun violence rallies, January 6th hearings.... blah blah blah. Everyone knows it's a country where nothing is going to change. They're a lost cause.

How many people have died in Chicago this year from illegal guns

The trolls and gun fetishists are going mental with their propaganda eh

When kids in USA marching to end gun violence and adults who have power in the government, don’t end gun violence, then you know, USA modern democracy and human rights are not part of the functioning society in USA.

Kids are given video games that are worse. Kids numb to killing long time now.

Gun sales in the 🇺🇸 rose dramatically during & after the BLM/ANTIFA Summer of Love riots in 2020 which the ABC was right behind.

Stricter gun laws won’t stop the killing.

US gun violence vs European gun violence. I know which I would prefer. Perhaps the US doesn’t get European gun violence because of an armed population.

parenting is a job

98% of crime involving guns are committed with illegally obtained guns. Do you think banning a guns will make the criminals hand in their illegal guns now their guns are illegal? Preventing families from defending themselves will get hundreds of thousands more people killed.

They already have background checks and plenty of other fun laws. What the small minority wants to do is to repeal the 2nd amendment. Something that will not happen due 75% support for it today.

the poor kids Gun ban or limit is up to US senators n they are chickens against the gun lobby They need lots of money for primary so they sell their soul to the gun donors

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Come on America... you can make changes to save lives and prevent these gun tragedies happening again !

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Time to terminate all US Republicans, they clearly have too much money going into their back packets!

If they have the numbers change will happen

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