“They legitimately somehow believe that having guns will make people safer, which has statistically proven over years and years and years to have especially negatively impacted children. “I definitely lay the blame on the naysayers within Congress who are against passing gun laws for any reason,” they told interviewer Elaine Godfrey. Parkland survivor X González echoed that sentiment in an interview with the Atlantic about their return to activism after the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings. “Your job is to represent and serve all the people who call this country home, and so far you’ve shown us you only represent the pockets of whoever donates the most to your campaign,” Bosley said. The cries of the nation’s children can be heard across the world, and you choose to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the lives being taken,” March for our Lives board member Trevon Bosley said in a speech during Saturday’s rally, highlighting the lack of political will to pass federal gun control legislation even during the wake of the Parkland shootings, which killed 17. “The injustices we see on the daily are being blatantly ignored by those on Capitol Hill. March for Our Lives, the gun control activism group founded after the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, held a rally in Washington, DC, on Saturday, calling for congressional action in the wake of the recent shootings. As mass-casualty events continue to mount, the country has seen a renewed demand for a significant response on the federal level. The announcement comes after two horrific mass shootings: one at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, which killed 10, and the other at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children. Despite the bipartisan cooperation, the framework is not yet formal legislation - and focuses primarily on mental health and school security interventions, rather than meaningfully restricting access to firearms.
A bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced a framework for federal gun control legislation, a remarkable breakthrough after years of stasis and obstruction on the part of Republican senators to pass any restrictions on gun ownership.