These AMarch4OurLives activists passed out mass shooting coloring books to get senatemajldr Mitch McConnell’s attention: “While people are dying, the members of Congress (…) continue to be childish on just not taking action on this epidemic”
, and the inaction stuck around. Activists were getting tired: They created a faux graveyard of all the bills McConnell “killed,” and they held protests. And, on Wednesday , Helisa and other young activists from March for Our Lives D.C. flooded Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel’s office.
Then the speeches came. When it was her time to speak, Helisa noted that when people think about Washington, D.C., they imagine the Hill, the Supreme Court, the monuments, and the museums, “but they don't know that there's a whole other culture of what D.C. really is.” The district has seen, peaking with 166 homicides in 2019, according to data released by D.C. police. The most common factor in all of those killings? Illegal firearms.
“Far too often we have seen the irreversible damage that illegal guns in the hands of violent offenders does to the lives and fabric of our community,”, according to WTOP. “So our primary focus on combating crime has always been and will continue to be removing illegal firearms from our neighborhoods.”
But Helisa and her fellow activists know the issue extends far beyond their own backyard — and that the lack of action by lawmakers has real-world consequences. “We have all of these national elected officials and lawmakers five minutes away from my daily life,” she told MTV News. “The fact that we're dying not far away from [lawmakers] and that they're not doing anything, it's just astonishing.
That’s why March For Our Lives D.C. have taken action into their own hands. A local chapter of the national movement founded by MSD survivors and allies, the group operates by
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