Students deliver memorable speeches at the March For Our Lives

“Your voices rang through our downtown, your signs were held high and your passion was ever-present”.

Students, teacher and others join in the March for Our Lives Protest in Killeen March 24, 2018.

Tens of thousands of fired up students marched through the streets of downtown Houston Saturday as part of the March for Our Lives movement calling for gun control.

Speaking for himself and his two friends he said “We’re believers in hunting and personal protection, this isn’t about taking people’s weapons away from them”. And we want what? “Is that such a hard request?”

Senator Hirono has also co-sponsored legislation that would strengthen the criminal background check system, ban high capacity ammunition magazines, prevent domestic abusers from accessing firearms, repeal the Dickey Amendment, and make straw purchasing and firearms trafficking federal crimes.

“This epidemic affects us all”, he said. “If you do not enact these measures by November, you will be voted out in favor of someone who can”.

Joan Howard, whose son Kempton was shot to death in 2003, said that while Canada doesn’t experience mass shootings on the same scale as the US, it’s hardly immune.

By all appearances – there were no official numbers – Washington’s March for Our Lives rally rivaled the women’s march past year that drew far more than the predicted 300,000. “I am here to say never again for those girls too”.

Underlining sharp differences among the American public over the issue, counter-demonstrators and supporters of gun rights were also in evidence in many United States cities.

Wieczorek, a former Marine Corps infantryman, said that the protesters need to focus their energy on obtainable goals.

“It’s so different. I used to live in Washington D.C., and I could hear gunfire from my house all the time”.

“We’re going to make sure the best people get in our elections to run not as politicians, but as Americans”. It coincided with as many as 800 similar rallies around the country.

In a showing of support not seen in decades, dozens of Manhattan blocks were shut down as protesters of all ages marched through the city, with many of them angry at the influence of the National Rifle Association lobby group.

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Protesters denounced the National Rifle Association and its allies and complained that they are scared of getting shot in school and exhausted of inaction by grown-ups after one mass shooting after another.

“This (march) is a result of the liberalization of our school system”, Grisham said.

Instead, he wants a societal push to identify people showing risky behaviors before a potential attack and more gun education, like properly locking up guns and teaching kids gun safety.