Hundreds of demonstrators were rallying in Washington, D.C., and across the United States on Saturday, calling on lawmakers to pass legislation aimed at curbing gun violence following last month’s massacre at a Texas elementary school.\n\nMarch for Our Lives (MFOL), the gun safety group founded by student survivors of the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school, said it has planned more than 450 rallies for Saturday, including in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Hundreds of demonstrators were rallying in Washington, D.C., and across the United States on Saturday, calling on lawmakers to pass legislation aimed at curbing gun violence following last month’s massacre at a Texas elementary school. March for Our Lives , the gun safety group founded by student survivors of the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school, said it has planned more than 450 rallies for Saturday, including in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Protestors attend a March for Our Lives rally against gun violence at the base of the Washington Monument on the National Mall June 11, 2022 in Washington, DC.Helen Carpenter, 8 years old, attends a March for Our Lives rally, one of a series of nationwide protests against gun violence, in Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday.Demonstrators stand around a makeshift memorial at the March for Our Lives rally in New York City on June 11.
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