Students from Florida initiated the holding of mass rallies across the country with the aim of attracting the authorities ‘ attention to the issue of control over the circulation of firearms.
With the corresponding statement, broadcast by CNN, ABC and Fox News, were made by five students Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which was a mass murder on February 14, writes Buzzfeed.
The students said that a nationwide campaign called «March for our lives», will be held March 24. «Politicians tell us that it is not yet time to talk about guns. We believe that the time has come…March 24 March will be held in each city. We cannot allow even one more child was killed in school,» said Cameron Helmets, one of the pupils of the school.
Adolescents also drew attention to the fact that the authorities, particularly the President, ignore the request to tighten gun control and fully support the National Rifle Association (National rifle Association) — the most powerful lobbyist for gun rights in the country.
«If the President wants to come to me and say that it was a terrible tragedy and that there’s nothing you can do, I will gladly ask him how much money he received from the NRA (the NRA),» said student Emma Gonzalez.
Today, many have already spoken in support of the March, including celebrities like Justin Bieber, Alyssa Milano and Ru Paul. In social networks the hashtag #marchforourlives is rapidly gaining popularity in the Internet a site with the appropriate name.
We will remind, on February 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, 19-year-old Nicolas Cruz staged a shooting in which 17 people were killed.
