Participants chanted, “No more silence, end gun violence”, as they walked the streets of Downtown Austin.
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The demonstrators standing on the Capitol steps the afternoon of December 13 wore orange because it’s a safety color, worn by crossing guards and hunters for its high visibility.
Gun supporters say Obama’s measures would not have prevented the attack and would have punished law-abiding owners.
Three years ago on Monday, a gunman opened fire in Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 first graders and six adults. “Criminals don’t care about gun laws that’s why they’re criminals”. Once there, many chalked those names onto the sidewalk around the sculpture.
In the three years since the shooting, “there has been significant progress [on gun control] at the state level”.
We are still asking, “Why?” and “What can we do?” Gun rights advocates have also challenged laws mandating reporting of lost or stolen guns, and prohibiting the sale or display of guns while the city is under a state of emergency.
“We are talking about common sense. The NRA is the radical who won’t let us keep our families safe from gun violence”.
Gun rights have been at the center of new Texas laws all year long.
“We’re seeing these events happen more and more”. “The rest of us are going to have to be just as passionate and organized in our defense of our kids”. “I still am nervous sometimes of shooters coming into the school or my house”.
“In the days after the massacre, a lot of politicians in Washington expressed their thoughts and prayers”. According to the Gun Violence Archive, children below the age of 12 have been involved in at least 658 shooting incidents so far this year.
The Release the Fear sculpture, designed and created by artist Robert Miley, is made from four tons of melted-down weapons that were used in violent acts. “It doesn’t make any sense”.
“It is my hope that everyone will find a quiet moment to reflect on what was lost that day”, Erardi said.
“I burst into tears”.
Connolly was joined by the parents of Alison Parker, one of two Roanoke, Virginia, television journalists shot dead by a former station employee during a live broadcast in August, and two survivors of a 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that badly wounded then-US Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others.
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Hockley recently spoke with the Huffington Post about the Promise, along with her overarching goals regarding gun violence and gun regulation. She said the group also promotes gun safety and supports limits on where, when and how loaded guns are carried and used in public.
