WASHINGTON – Thousands of people, many holding signs with names of gun violence victims and messages such as "Ban Assault Weapons Now," joined a rally for gun control Saturday, marching from the Capitol to the Washington Monument.
Leading the crowd were marchers with "We Are Sandy Hook" signs, paying tribute to victims of the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray and other city officials marched alongside them. The crowd stretched for at least two blocks along Constitution Avenue.
Participants held signs reading "Gun Control Now," "Stop NRA" and "What Would Jesus Pack?" among other messages. Other signs were simple, with the names of victims of gun violence.
About 100 residents from Newtown, where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six adults, traveled to Washington together, organizers said.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/26/5143267/gun-control-march-fills-dc-streets.html#storylink=cpy
I see a crowd that's about 80% female, 90% of whom have probably never held or used a firearm in their life, 100% of whom can't understand the simple statistics behind why an assault weapons ban is ineffective legislation.
Just amazing, so many turned out in support of proper gun control, turned out in support of ending needless gun violence.
A few thousand people in one city is bigger than tens of thousands across every state capital in all 50 states? ^_^So much bigger than the gun crazed protesters the other week.
Republican House members in red states aren't going to commit political suicide by voting for an AWB. Hell, even several Democrats in the Senate are skeptical about it, including the Majority Leader.Law makers need to see, the people support greater restrictions on gun ownership and possession.
I changed it because I felt thousands was an under estimate.
The crowd stretched for at least two blocks along Constitution Avenue.
They should march on Chicago to end gun violence.
We have a great talk radio guy on WGN radio here in Chicago (non-political news radio) who is very good at telling things as they are - Friday he just goes off, saying we all know by next Monday there will be another 5 deaths from gun violence in Chicago over the weekend, each shooting will be made with a handgun, not an assault rifle, obtained through illegal means, all these gun control laws being proposed will do absolutely nothing to reduce these gun deaths in the city.
As to the protest in D.C., I wish people had the decency to wait until they actually had a million group members before identifying themselves as a million people... and the decency not to link their group to the civil rights fight when it is not even remotely similar.
Harkin's decision eases the burden on the GOP, who have to gain six seats to win the majority in the Senate. The president's party historically loses seats in the midterm elections after his re-election. Obama, a Democrat, was re-elected last year.
Even more good news, with Senator Harkin no running again in Iowa the odds are even better for a Republican take over in 2014.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Harkin-Not-Running-for-Re-election-in-2014-188483361.html
I cannot wait the day until Obama finally does will Bill should have done. Abolish the NRA and remove all firearms from civilians.
Good thing the founders left executive privileged or Obama would be up against the 2nd Amendment. Otherwise we'd be stuck with a bunch of dumb white folks with think they're soldiers.
Isn't it great how so many self-righteous assholes take a great tragedy and turn those involved into martyrs for their own cause?
We should celebrate them. We should have "Sandy Hook Day"...we can all dress up like 5 year olds with bullet holes in them and celebrate how their wonderful sacrifice has now made us all more susceptable to gun violence because we banned law-abiding citizens from having those scary, nasty, evil guns.
Seriously, don't you realize that an object has no morality, no compulsion? The object itself is completely neutral. It is nothing but a tool.
Should we ban hammers because I can use one to bash your face in? Should we ban golf clubs because I could use one to knock your testicles off? Should we ban water because I could hold your head under it and drown you?
I mean, without a hammer, you'd still have a face. Without a golf club, you'd still have testicles. Without water, you'd still be alive. Right? So, by the logic espoused by gun control fanatics, the hammer, the golf club, and the water must be evil. If guns are evil because they can injure, so to must be everything else. Scope and scale are irrelevant. I could get 50lbs of commercial explosive and do much more damage than an AR-15 with a 30 round magazine. Should we ban commercial explosives too? Hell, I could probably accomlish that with a 5lb over the counter propane tank! Maybe we should ban barbecues!
Here's the idiocy of it all: maybe we should just outlaw criminals. I mean, they're the ones who are making all these bad things happen. Why not just outlaw them?
Gun control is the stupidest thing for Obama to spend what little political capital he has, and to my dismay it seems like he's willing to do it.
Harry Reid needs to visit the whitehouse with Wyden and all the other moderate Democrats that believe in the 2nd amendment and have an intervention.
I see a crowd that's about 80% female, 90% of whom have probably never held or used a firearm in their life, 100% of whom can't understand the simple statistics behind why an assault weapons ban is ineffective legislation.
Wow, now this is fucking dishonest. I am not sure I've even seen this before on Anandtech. You posted an article, quoted it, and yet changed these words in it fromI changed it because I felt thousands was an under estimate.
WASHINGTON – Thousands of people, many holding signs
WASHINGTON – Countless people, many holding signs
They should interview some of these people to see if they even know what an assault weapon is.
why can't you hold a ballot and vote on it like a democracy?
majority of states + majority of votes = yes ban, otherwise it fails and everybody just shuts up for a few years.