LOS ANGELES – Paul McCartney, Common, Miley Cyrus, Amy Schumer and other stars played supporting roles at nationwide gun-reform rallies dominated by teenage survivors’ emotional speeches.
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This is a reference to the NRA’s influence on the US government, particularly the Republican Party of US President Donald Trump.
Grande encountered another iteration of violence when her 2017 Manchester, England, concert was bombed, killing 22 people and injuring scores of others.
At the largest March For Our Lives protest in the U.S. on Saturday, demonstrators jammed Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue, where they listened to speeches from survivors of the Feb 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. At a rally in Chicago, 17-year-old Kara Sharp from Island Lake, Illinois, carried a sign reading “Protect students not guns – 2020 Voter” after traveling to the event with her father, a 53-year-old machinist.
In downtown Dallas, a raucous, energized crowd swelled into the thousands Saturday to rally against gun violence in schools. She also addressed that whenever white killers perpetrate mass shootings, it is always blamed on mental health issues. “The NRA has nothing to do with gun violence or the guns themselves”. “And they call people like me “Hollywood liberals” like there’s something in it for us”. We raise them high. And we want what?
“It truly didn’t feel personal until this week”, Tracy said of the shooting that occurred at Great Mills High School on Tuesday.
As a parent I feel terrible for the kids that were killed. We don’t need teachers carrying guns now.
There was only one counter-protester visible at the Allentown rally. Rights have been here long before any of these people got here.
People also gathered outside city hall in Las Vegas, where a gunman killed 58 people at a country music festival previous year. More than 830 demonstrations took place across the globe this weekend, according to Getty Images. The main stage for the event was set up near the US Capitol and lawmakers were the target audience as speakers delivered blistering warnings that the time has come for stricter gun laws.
The reference is to the Second Amendment, the constitutional guarantee of the right to bear arms.
Jack Kappelman, another of the three founding organizers, said 20,000 people attended the march on Saturday.
Read about Courtlin Arrington, the 17-year-old who had already laid out her plans to study nursing in college when a bullet fired from a classmate’s gun pierced her heart. “They tell you if anyone comes into the school with a gun to get down and if they shoot at you to get under the desk”. “So I think that was worth any amount of money and any amount of energy I think to inspire young people who inspired us”.
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“Nicholas, we are all here for you”, Kasky said. Thousands of Americans all over the nation have celebrated the voices of those affected by change.
