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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 12:32 PM Mar 2018

Gun control marches being held in all 50 states and six continents

Source: The Hill



BY AVERY ANAPOL - 03/24/18 12:25 PM EDT

Gun control marches are being held Saturday in every U.S. state and on every continent except Antarctica. While the main March for Our Lives is expected to draw more than 500,000 people to Washington, D.C., hundreds of thousands more will attend the more than 800 sibling marches worldwide, according to the March for Our Lives website.

The march, organized by student survivors of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting last month, is intended to demand lawmakers act on gun control and school safety.

Photos posted on social media Saturday morning from international marches showed thousands of young people in the UK, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden and other nations marching in solidarity with U.S. students.

Many celebrities, lawmakers and other prominent figures joined in the marches or donated to the movement in support of the students.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/380087-gun-control-marches-being-held-in-all-50-states-and-six-continents




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Gun control marches being held in all 50 states and six continents (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
I just wrote to NPR asking mountain grammy Mar 2018 #1
Good for you, mountain grammy. classof56 Mar 2018 #3
! Achilleaze Mar 2018 #2
Maybe some penguins are marching in Antarctica. Nt raccoon Mar 2018 #4
Very likely. GeorgeHayduke Mar 2018 #6
Antarctica is a gun free zone rickford66 Mar 2018 #5

mountain grammy

(26,568 posts)
1. I just wrote to NPR asking
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 12:36 PM
Mar 2018

why, in the morning news before Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me is there a segment about a March for our Guns in Montana. Why does NPR consider this newsworthy?

classof56

(5,376 posts)
3. Good for you, mountain grammy.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 01:01 PM
Mar 2018

I'm becoming increasingly disenchanted with NPR lately, so far not to the point of withholding my rather small annual donation. I do like Wait, Wait, though. That and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz are among my favorites. I can't imagine why they ran the segment about the gathering of gun nuts in Montana. Thanks for contacting them. Would be interested to hear their response, if they should choose to do so.

Blessings!

Another mountain grammy

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