Parkland Survivors Spell 'Thoughts and Prayers' With Body Bags on Capitol Hill

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Parkland Survivors Spell 'Thoughts and Prayers' With Body Bags on Capitol Hill
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'Four years of thoughts and prayers. Four years of broken promises. Four years without ANY federal action on guns.' AMarch4OurLives

"Four years of thoughts and prayers. Four years of broken promises. Four years without ANY federal action on guns."Marking four years since the March for Our Lives demonstration—and memorializing more than 170,000 people who have been killed in the United States by gun violence since then—survivors of the 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting used more than a thousand body bags Thursday to spell out the words"Thoughts and Prayers" on the ground outside the U.S.

"Four years of thoughts and prayers. Four years of broken promises. Four years without ANY federal action on guns," said March for Our Lives, the group formed by survivors of the Parkland shooting, in which 17 people were killed in February 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Right-wing Sen. Joe Manchin , who since the Democrats took over both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2021 has obstructed his own party's progress on climate action and anti-poverty legislation,In 2013, Manchin worked with Sen. Pat Toomey on legislation requiring background checks on all commercial sales, with a carve-out for private sales between individuals who know each other.

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