{"id":1492896,"date":"2022-05-26T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492896"},"modified":"2022-05-26T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T15:15:02","slug":"gun-control-group-plans-nationwide-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-control-group-plans-nationwide-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control Group Plans Nationwide Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgun-control-group-plans-nationwide-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492896&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A\u00a0student-led gun control advocacy group is planning nationwide protests in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> elementary school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-shooting\">shooting<\/a> that claimed the lives of 19 children this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marchforourlives.com\/march22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to its website,\u00a0<\/a>March for Our Lives is planning to take to the streets of Washington, D.C. on June 11. The group also has several other marches planned in various parts of the country spanning from San Francisco and Michigan to South Carolina, on a number of dates.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a protest at the convention center where the National Rifle Association (NRA) is hosting a conference in Houston, Texas on May 27.\u00a0The convention center is roughly 300 miles from the scene of the deadly shooting at an\u00a0elementary school in\u00a0Uvalde, Texas,\u00a0on May 24.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are also calling on activists to join them at\u00a0Capitol Hill from\u00a0June 7 to 10 where they will be discussing a push for\u00a0universal background checks on gun purchasers with lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>A bill requiring them, titled the\u00a0Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, or\u00a0H.R. 8, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/house-passes-gun-control-bill-expanding-background-checks-on-firearm-sales_3729592.html\">passed the House in March 2021<\/a> but the\u00a0Republican-controlled Senate has not taken it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur message and ask\u00a0is simple: no longer will we be held hostage by our lawmakers and no longer will we tolerate feeling unsafe in our communities,\u201d the group wrote on the website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of what party you stand for, if you do not support lifesaving measures like universal background checks, we will pledge to vote against you this fall and in future elections. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>March for Our Lives was founded in 2018 following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida,\u00a0during which a gunman killed 17 people.<\/p>\n<p>The group organized\u00a0one of the largest protests against gun violence in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>March for Our Lives says it believes gun violence across the country is the result of\u00a0gun glorification, political apathy, poverty, armed supremacy, and a nationwide mental health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The group proposes proactively addressing these issues while banning\u00a0assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and other weapons; and holding the gun industry and lobbyists more accountable. It also advocates\u00a0policies to disarm gun owners who pose a harm risk, and a national gun buy-back program to reduce the estimated\u00a0265\u2013393\u00a0million firearms in circulation by at least 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident [Joe] Biden and all our elected officials must act with a fierce urgency to call this crisis what it is:\u00a0a national public health emergency,\u201d the group states on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Biden condemned gun laws in\u00a0America in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/25\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-at-signing-of-executive-order-to-advance-effective-accountable-policing-and-strengthen-public-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House address<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday following the Texas school shooting, while advocating for limitations on constitutionally protected gun rights and for lawmakers to \u201cstand up to a very powerful\u201d gun lobby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen in God\u2019s name will we do what needs to be done to, if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of the carnage that goes on in this country?\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile they clearly will not prevent every tragedy, we know certain ones will have a significant impact and have no negative impact on the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not absolute,\u201d he added. \u201cWhen it was passed, you couldn\u2019t own \u2026 a cannon, you couldn\u2019t own certain kinds of weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salvador Ramos, 18,\u00a0allegedly shot his grandmother on May 24 before driving toward Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and opening fire on the campus, killing 19 children and two adults.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman was shot and killed by law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-katabella-roberts\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katabella Roberts is a reporter currently based in Turkey. She covers news and business for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0student-led gun control advocacy group is planning nationwide protests in the wake of the Texas elementary school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children this week.According to its website,\u00a0March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1888604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}