As teenage survivors of last week’s deadly Florida high school shooting marched into the state capital and hundreds of students joined sympathy protests to demand a ban on assault weapons, over 1,000 national faith leaders called on Congress to “Stop the Killing” by banning assault weapons.
Over 1,000 national faith leaders call on Congress to “Stop the Killing” by banning assault weapons #NeverAgain pic.twitter.com/eQpx7KlvRF
— Faith in Public Life (@TheRealFPL) February 21, 2018
Here’s a snap map example of anti-gun walkouts:
My Snap Maps is all anti-gun walkouts
This is where US kids, tomorrow's voters, communicate today pic.twitter.com/e8fxhVvO7R
— Mike Murphy (@mcwm) February 21, 2018
Since morality won’t move the NRA Congress, most but not all of whom are Republican, maybe optics will. They are now up against teenage survivors of a gun massacre and over 1,000 faith leaders. This is sort of the point in this movie where even an idiot who is getting millions from the NRA knows this is not a going to end well for them.
But we have a Congress largely shielded from the public. Some of these Republican lawmakers know what it is to be on the other end of a gun, they know the terror, but they also know that they have protection from the angry white men their policies arm. Our children do not.
This is what a movement looks like. It consists of people from all walks of life. All religions. They will not be silenced and they will not be ignored.
Here’s a gallery of images from the protest today. To see what Republicans are up against, click on image to enlarge. All images Reuters.
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- Students from South Plantation High School carrying placards and shouting slogans walk on the street during a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Plantation, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students who walked out of their Montgomery County, Maryland, schools protest against gun violence in front of the White House in Washington, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- Students from South Plantation High School carrying placards and shouting slogans walk on the street during a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Plantation, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students from South Plantation High School carrying placards and shouting slogans walk on the street during a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Plantation, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students and their chaperones from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, wearing blue t-shirts, stand in the gallery above the Florida Senate as the Senate holds a moment of silence to honour the victims of last week’s mass shooting on the school’s campus, in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Colin Hackley
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- Mark Forst holds a placard close to the fence of Western High School during a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Davie, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Melissa Conrad-Freed, former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, mourns while she holds pictures of Aaron Feis, one of the victims of the mass shooting, close to the fence of Western High School, during a protest in support of the gun control, in Davie, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students from South Plantation High School carrying placards and shouting slogans walk on the street during a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Plantation, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students from South Plantation High School carrying placards and shouting slogans walk on the street during a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Plantation, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, wearing blue t-shirts, look on from the gallery above the Florida Senate after the Senate honoured the victims of last week’s mass shooting on their campus, in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Colin Hackley
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- Students from Western High School carrying placards, take part in a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Davie, Florida, U.S, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students from Western High School carry the placards as they take part in a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Davie, Florida, U.S., February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students who walked out of their Montgomery County, Maryland, schools protest against gun violence in front of the White House in Washington, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- Students from Western High School carrying placards, take part in a protest in support of the gun control, following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Davie, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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- Students who walked out of their Montgomery County, Maryland, schools protest against gun violence in front of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- A weeping high school student is comforted during a protest against gun violence in front of the White House in Washington, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- Students who walked out of their Montgomery County, Maryland, schools protest against gun violence in front of the White House in Washington, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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- Tyra Hemans, a senior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School, holds a photo of her friend Joaquin Oliver, who died during last week’s mass shooting on her campus, as she and other MSD students speak with the leadership of the Florida Senate, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Colin Hackley
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