March 23, 2018: Students at Dallas ISD’s Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center have walked out of class for a demonstration protesting of USA gun laws.
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Andy Rohrbaugh of Dillsburg said he marched as a “responsible gun owner” who wants it to be more hard for some people to buy guns.
Organizers in the U.S. capital are expecting as many as 500,000 participants at the Washington rally. Next, he received a call from Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown saying they would cover the costs for the students’ housing in D.C. “Kids being exhausted of their friends being taken away from them”, she said.
This issue and debate have recently gathered new, and quite firm, ground.
Event organizers encourage those who attend to bring a flower they can place at a memorial that will set up to honor the lives lost in the Parkland Fla. shooting on February 14.
But he thinks that the conversation about guns in America has been manipulated to divide people, on an issue where he sees a lot of agreement – and a lot of middle ground. A board of directors, which includes public servants, legal experts and professionals, will work with a student advisory board to make decisions on how to spend the money, a spokesperson told HuffPost. “We are not here for bread crumbs, we are here for real change”, said Tarr.
Top Republican lawmakers have so far shown little appetite for major reforms.
In recent weeks, two Excel Academy students have been shot. Both proposals have failed to gain traction after prior mass shootings. The collective mission, according to organizers, is to demand Congress pass legislation to improve school safety.
Marchers of all ages congregated outside the Riverside Historic Courthouse and then marched in a one-mile loop through downtown Riverside.
Nevaeh Williams, a 16-year-old who lives and attends school in the poor, predominantly African-American neighborhoods of Washington, said that while the focus on reducing gun violence was welcome, it was coming belatedly for young people who face it daily on the streets of the District and in other cities.
“We as people of faith and people that have experienced the suffering caused by high power rifles, it was our time to speak up also and join the people of Florida”, he said. “I’m talking real laws”. “This is not just about us”. Several synagogues and advocacy groups, including Synagogue B’nai Jeshrun, the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, and Torah Trumps Hate took part in the rally in Central Park and the march that followed. A map of the hundreds of scheduled protests can be found at the March for Our Lives website. Every day in school we learn how great the United States is, yet we have classmates dying in the very places they are supposed to be learning.
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Congressman Joe Kennedy III, D-Brookline, also turned out for the Boston March for Our Lives event.
