Thousands gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday to rally for stricter gun control measures in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York.
Event organizers and speakers behind the March for Our Lives rally blasted Congress for failing to reach final passage on legislation that would raise the minimum age for the purchase of semi-automatic rifles and establish “red flag laws” before the Senate left town this week.
“If our government can’t do anything to stop 19 kids from being killed and slaughtered in their own school, and decapitated, it’s time to change who is in government,” David Hogg, March for Our Lives co-founder, said referring to those students killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.