Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — On the fourth anniversary of the"March For Our Lives" rally, more than 1,100 body bags -- each one representing 150 people -- were placed on the National Mall Thursday to mark the more than 170,000 people who have died from gun violence in the U.S. since the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
While the organization said it has made strides to combat violence in the past four years, it said Congress needs to do more. "We want to provide a stark reality and visual of what not having done anything for years looks like," Daud Mumin, March For Our Lives board of directors co-chair, told ABC News.
While President Joe Biden has called on Congress to act and pass background checks, Hogg said simply calling for it is not enough.Biden signed executive orders last year aimed at tackling gun violence, with special attention to “ghost guns," which are firearm kits that can be purchased online and assembled at home.
"People in Congress were not courageous enough to do something to end this problem," Jaclyn Corin, a Parkland shooting survivor and a co-founder of March For Our Lives, told ABC News."And so we're going to be going up all the time every day, making sure that this issue is solved … every single person should be concerned and so many mothers and fathers and children or parents or children and it's unacceptable that these are preventable deaths.
Exactly WHAT gun reforms are these activists asking for?
Good luck with that.
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