Newtown Activists Head to DC to Lobby Again for Gun Control
What timing!
Activists from the Connecticut town where 26 people were gunned down in a mass shooting at an elementary school in December headed to Washington on Tuesday to lobby again for gun control, a trip that took on new urgency in the wake of the massacre in the capital that killed 13, including the gunman.
The trip by about 50 members of the Newtown Action Alliance was planned to mark roughly nine months since the Dec. 14 rampage, in which 20 children and six educators were shot to death, and it now also quickly follows Monday's killings at the Washington Navy Yard. The group will ask Congress to require background checks for gun buyers.
Members of the group focused their criticism on Congress, where an effort to enact new background checks fell short in the Senate in April.
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If they were to be killed in a bus crash on their way there, would their survivors be going to DC to outlaw roads?
No, busses.