Community members in Austin gathered at the State Capitol for a vigil to remember the victims in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting.
rallied at the governor's mansion and marched to the state capitol calling for action against gun violence.
"I understand the right to bear arms. What about the right to be safe when you send your kids to school?" activist Idona Griffith said. "We need common sense gun reform." "What we're promoting isn't taking anybody's guns, we're promoting sensible gun laws like red flag laws, background checks of course...it should be harder to get a gun than it is to get a driver's license, and it's not in this state," Robin Breed with Moms Demand Action said.Gov. Abbott traveled to Uvalde Wednesday, 24 hours after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School.
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