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At the gun-control rally, two teen sisters who helped organize the protest said they felt hope for the first time after the Parkland, Florida shooting survivors advocated for change. "Finally, somebody was doing something about it, except it wasn't who you'd expect - it was us," Mariah Thomas, 17, said to cheers.
WASHINGTON/PARKLAND - Tens of thousands of Americans gathered across the country on Saturday at March For Our Lives rallies to demand tighter gun laws, led by survivors of last month's Florida school massacre which reignited public anger over mass shootings. Students from the Parkland, Florida, high school where 17 people were killed on Feb. 14 were set to speak at the biggest event, in Washington, where organizers said as many as 500,000 people were expected to demonstrate near the Capitol and call on Congress to fight gun violence.
Mark Kelly , a retired astronaut, gun-control advocate and husband of former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords , said Sunday that if students who organized the March for Our Lives can mobilize young people to vote, they could swing the 2018 midterms. Kelly told ABC News "This Week" Co-Anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that he talked to the student organizers of the massive march for gun control on Saturday, "and they have a plan ... This is not the last you're going to see of these kids."
The Trump administration on Friday announced a new regulation that would outlaw "bump stocks," the mechanical device used by the Las Vegas shooter to make his rifles fire like more lethal automatic weapons. President Donald Trump announced the regulation in a Twitter message a day before the so-called March for Our Lives, which was organized by young people after the mass slayings at a Parkland, Fla., high school.
Ever since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida last month, a group of students have been making the rounds on television demanding that we do something. The students, especially Hogg, have mostly brushed off numerous law enforcement failures before and during the shooting.
NNU members are expected to join in marches scheduled in Parkland and Sarasota, Fl.,, Washington D.C., Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, Tx., Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Ca. "The activist students deserve the nation's thanks for demanding policy makers finally pass needed reforms as well as stimulating a national dialogue on what steps we should, as a nation, take to protect our children, our families, and all of our people from what is clearly a preventable form of violence," said NNU Co-President Jean Ross, RN earlier this month.
For Justin Johnson, having his newborn baby girl taken from him was "as close to hell as I would want to get to." Johnson spoke to ABC News' Victor Oquendo about his days-long nightmare after he says tribal police came to Baptist Hospital in Kendall, Florida, and took his daughter, Ingrid Ronan Johnson, days after her birth on March 16. Johnson said he was devastated when Ingrid was taken from him.
Touched by the exhibition of 7000 empty shoes on the Capitol lawn, memorializing the 7000 children who have been killed by gun violence since the Sandy Hook school shooting, Fairfax Times wanted to know more about this powerful artistic expression and those behind it.
Ilan Alhadeff, joined at left by his wife Lori Alhadeff, holds a photograph of their daughter, Alyssa Alhadeff, 14, who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., during a rally by lawmakers an... . Lexi Offstein, 17, center, and Jade Tywang, 17, right, both students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., meet with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., left, Friday March 23, 2018, on Capitol Hill in W... WASHINGTON - Thousands are gathering in Washington Saturday for a protest that organizers claim will be a defining moment in the long-simmering national debate over gun-control legislation.
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama sent a heartfelt, handwritten letter to the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, commending their efforts to champion gun control after a lone gunman killed 17 people in February. The note said the Parkland, Florida, teenagers had "helped awaken the conscience of the nation, and challenged decision-makers to make the safety of our children the country's top priority."
Students from the Florida high school where 17 people were fatally shot last month expect more than 1 million participants in upcoming marches in Washington and elsewhere calling for gun regulations. More than 800 March for Our Lives demonstrations are planned around the world Saturday, sparked by the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton reacted Thursday to the video footage of a former Broward County deputy standing outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while a gunman killed 17 people. "This wasn't some hidden thing, this wasn't esoteric, this was in the training manual," Carlson said.
Students across New Hampshire joined their counterparts across the nation Wednesday, walking out of classes to show their solidarity with the victims of last month's school shooting at Parkland, Fla.
Social media giants that have acknowledged Russians exploited their platforms ahead of the 2016 election face renewed bipartisan demands to explain to Congress what they're doing to counter abuse of their networks ahead of this year's congressional midterms. Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said that the chief executives from companies like Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's Google should testify as to how they can tackle ongoing interference by Russia, as well as abuse of their networks by others.
Classrooms across America were left almost barren as tens of thousands of students walked out of their classrooms Wednesday to demand action on gun violence and school safety. It was one of the biggest student protests since the Vietnam era.
Students sit in silence as they rally in front of the White House in Washington today. Students walked out of school to protest gun violence in the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month's massacre of 17 people at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Drury High School students stand in front of the school in North Adams, Mass., each of them holding signs representing each of the people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School one month ago, during a walkout on Wednesday morning, March 14, 2018.
Organizers said last month's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, served as a catalyst for creating the memorial and sending a message to lawmakers Thousands of children's shoes were on display outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday as a temporary memorial to children killed by gun violence. The Monument for Our Kids, made up for 7,000 pairs of shoes, represents every child killed with a gun since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, organizers said.
Senator Charles Grassley plans to convene a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in response to violence in schools following the Parkland, Florida, massacre. Among those Grassley will call as witnesses at the hearing are Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Governor Bill Nelson.