March for Our Lives

Thousands marched on Saturday in Washington, D.C., and in cities across the country, including New York and Chicago, for gun control.

Melissa Stein, a 42-year-old educator at Rosemary Hills Elementary School in Montgomery County, Maryland, said she came to the march out of fear for her students and children. She then thought of the students killed whose lives were cut short by gun violence. Our job is to teach and protect kids and we have to worry about them being killed," Stein said. And so that's why we really thought it was important to come so that the people in Uvalde would know,” Lisa Allen said. “I've wanted to be an educator my whole life," Hier said. Maggy Hier, 21-year-old Baltimore native, hopes to one day be a school teacher.

Both groups can be seen in the spotlight as abortion and gun violence take hold of the national conversation. Though similar in name, each stands behind ...

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Dozens gathered in downtown Nashville Saturday, calling for gun control and an end to gun violence.

Carson Ferrara, one of the organizers of this year's Nashville event, said these shootings, just 10 days apart, show the urgent need for stricter gun laws. Thousands gathered the same day in Nashville with the same message. The first March for Our Lives rallies were held after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead. Want to read more stories like this? This is a society issue' “We’re not trying to take away your guns.

March for Our Lives, the student-led movement focused on gun violence prevention, returns to Washington this weekend for a mass demonstration in the wake of ...

following the deadly shooting rampage at a Parkland, Florida, high school. The marches come alongside a renewed push in Congress for gun control. The DC march on Saturday afternoon at the Washington Monument is set to feature a slate of speakers pushing for action on gun violence.

A student-led march against gun violence is underway in downtown Los Angeles that was prompted by a recent spate of mass shootings, including one at an ...

“As a high school sophomore, I am endlessly tired of having to watch my surroundings and hear ‘thoughts and prayers — this is sickening’ while it goes on to be forgotten in a week,” Anna Pham, an organizer of the Los Angeles march, wrote in an announcement for the event. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the May 24 attack, which also wounded 17. So it really kind of hit me. Nick Leeds, 26, had not particularly focused on gun violence before the massacre in Uvalde, Texas. But watching the news of the shooting, he saw a grownup holding a pair of shoes of one of the child victims. A student-led march against gun violence is underway in downtown Los Angeles that was prompted by a recent spate of mass shootings, including one at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and another at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., that together killed 31 people. The L.A. March for Our Lives rally, which started at Grand Park at noon, is one of hundreds taking place across the country in solidarity with a flagship march in Washington, D.C. The movement emerged after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 people.

Saying enough is enough, hundreds of students, educators, nurses, and community members gathered at West Capitol Park in Albany today to call for federal ...

The Task Force is charged with building a list of recommendations for how our state and districts can best support safe public schools at the center of every community. “The shooting at Columbia High School would not make national news today because it has become too commonplace, and no one died,” said Bennett, who is now superintendent of Greenville Central School District. “Not that what we are doing isn’t right and just, but because doing whatever it takes to stop mass shootings in our schools and communities should just be common sense.” NYSUT has launched a Safe Schools for All Task Force to hear from our members on the issue of school violence and get your input on next steps. “We are not safe anywhere,” Johnson said. “This is not a red state problem or a blue state problem…

Outside the Capitol in Austin, relatives of Jackie Cazares, 9, and Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10, two of the 19 students killed at Robb Elementary School ...

And to those who say 18-year-olds ought to be able to buy weapons of war, here’s what I say: Tell that to the ghosts of the persons who died shopping at the Tops Food Market [in Buffalo]. Explain that to the spirit of the people who have their children that have lost their lives at the school in Uvalde. Explain it, if you will, please, to those whose hearts have been broken because the guns have massacred and killed their kids. I ask our politicians this: If we have the judgment to shoot a bad buy, why don't we have the judgment to plan our lessons?” “All Americans have a right to not be shot, a right to safety,” he said. Some protesters made clear that they supported the 2nd Amendment but did not consider gun rights to be absolute. “This is not a political issue, this is a moral issue,” he said, calling for higher spending on mental health. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, which has 65,000 members in Texas, told the crowd in Washington: “Schools should be places of hope, not fear. The idea of arming and training teachers to confront shooters baffled Martin, the high school teacher, who held a sign outside of the courthouse that read “NO MORE.” “Assault rifles are designed for only one purpose, to be a killing machine,” he said. “While I was fearing for my own life, I didn’t know that my sister had lost hers,” said Jackie’s older sister Jazmin, 17, referring to a school-district-wide lockdown that was imposed amid the chaos at Robb Elementary. “I am unbelievably angry, but I’m not going to turn my anger into hate. He continued: “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. In Austin, protesters marched at the Capitol, trying to sway a Legislature that has repeatedly loosened gun laws over the past decade. Both mothers doubted whether the backpacks could stand up to a round from an AR-15 — the weapon used by the gunman who killed 19 students and two educators at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24.

Silas Gwinn, 5, center, holds up a sign reading, "I want to be safe," at a March for Our Lives rally Saturday, June 11, on the Statehouse steps in ...

“Vermont is not one of the whitest states in the country by accident.” The bill would raise the age to purchase a semiautomatic centerfire rifle, place limits on large capacity magazines and create federal regulations on ghost guns — firearms that can be bought online as a kit and assembled at home. Missing out on the latest scoop? Lake Region Union High School in Barton canceled a day of classes the next week after a student threatened gun violence on Snapchat. When Wardwell pulled into the parking lot that morning, “it felt like I was driving into a prison, not a high school,” she said. You are entitled to better service from your democracy, and your United States Senate.” Her students were all wearing masks due to the Covid-19 pandemic. U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., also spoke at the rally. MONTPELIER — Standing before hundreds of people at the Statehouse Saturday afternoon, Amy Wardwell, a social studies teacher at Champlain Valley Union High School, described waking up to a recent email from her principal. During one recent drill, it was quiet, except for the hum of an air purifier, Barandse said. “We live in a state that's too commonly mistaken as a progressive haven, yet easy access to firearms gives armed white extremists and dangerous people the means to threaten, intimidate and force Black, Indigenous and other people of color out of our state and out of our communities,” she said. “A place where we would not be able to build the trust and relationships with students that make learning in Vermont possible, because we were starting that day from a place of suspicion.”

March for Our Lives, a youth-led organization that demands an end to gun violence and puts pressure on legislators, rallied Saturday in Redwood City, ...

"It's going to be incremental steps right now, unfortunately," said the 73-year-old woman. "We're one of the only countries where our constitution hasn't been altered to help what is going on currently," Cabebe said. And while the U.S. has seen a decline in recent years of people in favor of stricter guns, the majority of people still, 53%, want them. She added: "In the words of political commentator Van Jones, we have to reframe the issue. Chen was one of several people who spoke, presented or sang on stage at the rally for March for Our Lives, a youth-led organization that demands an end to gun violence and puts pressure on legislators to enact policies for stricter gun laws. "Mass shootings have become a part of American culture," Rutigliano told the crowd.

Around the country today, thousands rallied for stronger gun safety laws. Hundreds of events were scheduled in the wake of the most recent string of deadly ...

I will note that in the NPR, PBS and Marist poll, actually, a majority of gun owners, along with a majority of Americans, said it's more important to control gun violence than to protect gun rights. There's one independent nonprofit that tracks this and says, so far this year, there have been more than 250 mass shootings in the U.S. But there is a bipartisan group there trying to find what they can all agree on, you know, and what can win the support of at least 10 Republicans when part of what they're discussing are so-called red flag laws to encourage states to pass them, and that would allow police or family members to temporarily take a gun away from someone who is deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. That was clear again this week in a poll by NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist. And we're in an election year. You know, meanwhile, I think it's just, you know, worth noting that guns have now become the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. Many people talked about this as a very American problem. And like many of them, she does not think that hardening schools and giving teachers guns, as many Republicans suggest, is the answer. You know, they voted to raise the age to buy certain semiautomatic weapons and have new restrictions on high-capacity magazines, among other things. Hundreds of events were scheduled in the wake of the most recent string of deadly mass shootings and as Congress is considering ways to limit them. She said she wanted to come to demonstrate in D.C., though, to send a message to lawmakers. The Senate is where this is, you know, going to come down to. And he was on the stage today. NPR's Jennifer Ludden was on the National Mall here in Washington, D.C., today and joins us now.