High school and college students, local leaders, educators, and parents made up more than 500 people sweating in a heat wave through downtown Houston during a March for Our Lives protest.
The event was organized by students pushing for gun legislation in response to the Uvalde elementary school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers.
"Gun violence is something I have worried about my entire life," says Katherine Chen, March for Our Lives Houston Executive Director from a podium in front of City Hall. "In every other country in the world, that is something that is taken seriously, but here it is just a daily occurrence."Other student speakers shared how mass shootings are changing their school experience.
A common thread of proposed laws is woven through many of the speeches: rolling back permit-less carry, red flag laws, universal background checks, and raising the minimum age to buy a gun. The group says these are small changes that can make big differences in saving lives.After the speeches, the mass of hundreds marched those requests to Republican Senator Ted Cruz's downtown office.
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