People gathered Monday night outside National Rifle Association headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, to hold a vigil for the victims of the weekend's mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, and the string of shootings in Chicago
The vigil was organized by the Northern Virginia chapters of March for Our Lives and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence to honor the victims and to demand action from national and state leaders.Protesters held candles, photos of the victims and homemade signs demanding change.Sandi Lisko attends Monday's vigil.
Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia, according to WJLA."Is it political to say that kids and adults shouldn't be gunned down when they're doing things like shopping for back to school?"We need to make sure that we honor those who have died. We need to make sure that their lives and deaths were not in vain. But there is so much more that we can do. We can honor them through action. We can honor them by making positive change, and we have real opportunities to do that.
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