Families of the victims of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, earlier this year will participate in a gun control demonstration on Saturday in the state capital. The relatives of the victims and survivors of the 2018 Santa Fe high school shooting will travel to Austin, Texas to take part in the March for Our Lives demonstration.
Since the Uvalde tragedy in May, which left 19 children and two adults dead, March for Our Lives, an organization founded by survivors of the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has organized demonstrations around the nation.
One of 450 protests that happened in the aftermath of the Uvalde massacre and the race-related shooting that took place in Buffalo, New York, both of which happened in May, thousands of people showed up for the March for Our Lives rally that was held on the National Mall in early June.
“All Americans have a right to not be shot, a right to safety. Nowhere in the Constitution is unrestricted access to weapons of war a guaranteed right,” said David Hogg, a Parkland survivor, at the event.
According to March for Our Lives, the purpose of the event is to persuade the Texas government to approve “laws raising the minimum age” to purchase semi-automatic weapons, which are frequently used in large-scale killings like the one in Uvalde.
Following a ruling on Thursday halting a Texas law that forbids anyone under 21 from carrying firearms outside of their houses, a demonstration for gun control will be held.
The statute restricts the personal freedoms of adults under the age of 21, according to U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, who also determined that the law is unconstitutional.
March for Our Lives aims to pass “common-sense reforms” such as “implementing universal, comprehensive background checks; creating a searchable database for gun owners; investing in violence intervention programs, specifically in disenfranchised communities; funding the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence so that reform policies are backed up by data, and banning high-capacity magazines and semi-automatic assault rifles,” the organization said in a statement.
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