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Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
Sat May 9, 2015, 04:17 PM May 2015

Hundreds march across Brooklyn Bridge for stricter gun laws

(cross-posting from LBN)

Source: Associated Press

Hundreds march across Brooklyn Bridge for stricter gun laws


By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press | May 9, 2015 | Updated: May 9, 2015 3:50pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of men, women and children including fashion designer Donna Karan marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday demanding stricter gun laws and offering a litany of violent stories to show why such laws are needed.

Held on the eve of Mother's Day, the third annual march from Brooklyn to Manhattan was organized by the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.

"Progress is being made, one day at a time," said Abbey Clements, a teacher from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in December 2012.

Clements said about 40 percent of all gun sales are completed without a background check. She accused Congress of lacking the courage "to vote on their conscience instead of allowing themselves to be bullied by the gun lobby."


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Hundreds-march-across-Brooklyn-Bridge-for-6252989.php
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Hundreds march across Brooklyn Bridge for stricter gun laws (Original Post) Electric Monk May 2015 OP
Unfortunately some do vote their Pro-Gun conscience. misterhighwasted May 2015 #1
It is time to put some grit in their tongues and do what the majority of the Thinkingabout May 2015 #2

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
1. Unfortunately some do vote their Pro-Gun conscience.
Sat May 9, 2015, 04:37 PM
May 2015

And yes the gun lobby doesn't care how many children & innocents die at the hands of such stupidity.

Proud of those who march in NY today.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. It is time to put some grit in their tongues and do what the majority of the
Sat May 9, 2015, 05:15 PM
May 2015

People wants and some control on those purchasing guns. I know gun control is listed as a distraction, a minor one for some but not with the majority.

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