'I'm just tired of the NRA subordinating children's rights for gun rights,' said one gun lobby opponent just three days after the school massacre in Uvalde.
Members of the League of Unified Latin American Citizens, Moms Demand Action, Black Lives Matter, Indivisible, the Houston Federation of Teachers, and other groups took part in the protest.
"When you go and shoot up a school full of kids and teachers... you've taken someone's right to life away,"Ashton Woods, founder and lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Houston."We're building space to hold the families of Uvalde, to let them know that we are there for them, that we will stand up for them and we will be fighting for them—even when this is over—to make sure we get common-sense gun reform.
Political leaders including Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner , U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee , and Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke—who"The time to stop Uvalde was after a Columbine...and after Sandy Hook," O'Rourkethat"400 million guns, 45% of the guns in the world are in the United States... Will we continue to live in the house of shame?"
Demonstrators took aim at weapons makers, the gun lobby, and the mostly Republican elected officials who collectively receive millions of dollars in campaign contributions from firearms interests while failing to take meaningful action in the face of over—more than the total number of American troops killed in the nation's many wars—over the past half century.according toDespite misleading headlines reporting that Republican Texas Gov.
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