“No more,” David Hogg, a March for Our Lives co-founder and a survivor of the Parkland shooting, said on Twitter. “It’s time Democrats, Republicans, gun owners and non-gun owners come together” and start focusing on what they can agree on. Protests unfolded Saturday in more than 300 cities across the country and at a smattering of locations in Europe. At the main protest site, the Washington Monument in the U.S. capital, survivors of mass shootings, teachers’ representatives, civil rights advocates and elected officials addressed the crowd. The Senate talks are said to focus on those claims, as well as on background checks for weapons purchases.

Source: New York Times June 11, 2022 20:28 UTC