Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to rally in Washington, D.C., and across the country on Saturday, calling on lawmamers 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 events in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
This year's event in Washington has a simple message to political leaders, according to organizers: Your inaction is killing Americans. A gunman in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24, 10 days after another gunman murdered 10 Black people in a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in a racist attack.
Among other policies, MFOL has called for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks for those trying to purchase guns and a national licensing system, which would register gun owners.
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