The resounding message: Washington's inaction on the scourge of gun violence is no longer acceptable. Three years earlier, she had lost her son to gun violence, she said. "It happens so often in our neighborhoods," she said of gun violence. Sophie Phillips holds a sign at a Florida rally for those heading to the March for Our Lives in Washington. "They don't know what it's like to be 20 feet from an AR-15," Parkland survivor Alfonso Calderon , 16, told students at a Washington charter school this week, referring to US lawmakers.

Source: CNN March 24, 2018 09:15 UTC