Students stage walkout protests in US against gun violence
A large number of students have walked out in New York, the United States, of their schools on National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
Most of the students wore orange in solidarity with victims of gun violence on Friday, Spectrum News reported.
“The Buffalo shooting was crazy. I don’t want that. I don’t know why is that being tolerated,” one student said. “That all has to come to an end — we need to, we need to. It’s a must. It has to come to an end.”
American students have staged walkout protests after recent deadly mass shootings in which 10 Black people were killed in Buffalo; 19 children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas.
“It should make it harder for people to own guns and to have guns, so stop the gun violence,” Kiana Dwarka, a student at Cooke School, said.
Hundreds of people in New York have also been shot this year besides the mass shootings.
“In this district, we saw a young girl shot and killed in a Burger King in East Harlem, two police officers murdered in Harlem, an 11-month-old baby shot in the face in the Bronx,” Rep. Adriano Espaillat said. “So this community is fed up and responding.”
Elected US officials held a news conference in Harlem, New York, and expressed their thoughts about new gun control measures.
Congressional Representative Adriano Espaillat urged the US Senate to pass a gun control package that is being approved in the House of Representatives.
“I am confident that the crisis has reached a level where there’s no alternative,” Espaillat said. “I don’t think it goes far enough, actually. But they must pass it in the Senate.”
On May 24, nineteen students and two teachers were shot and killed at Robb Elementary School by a gunman in Uvalde, Texas, 10 days after a mass shooting at a store in Buffalo, New York, left 10 people dead.
Police say the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, entered the school with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle after earlier shooting his grandmother, who survived.
There have been conflicting accounts of how law enforcement responded to the shooting. The Department of Justice on Sunday said it would open an investigation into the police response at the request of Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin.
More than 45,000 people were killed by gun violence in the United States last year, up from 43,671 in 2020 and 39,581 in 2019, according to FBI data.
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