The initiative is hold by students who survived Wednesday 14 February shooting, at a school in Parkland, Florida

After the shooting in Feb. 14 at school Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, located in Miami, Florida, the debate over gun control in the North American country was reopened. The crime was perpetrated by a former student of that institution, Nickolas Cruz, who opened fire inside the school and killed 17 people.

This shootout is located among the 10 deadliest since 1991, in North American history, with 17 fatalities. Students who survived the massacre have decided to hold a march in Washington, the capital of the United States, to raise awareness about arms bearing, but the political and social indifference that Congress and the White House have had on the subject.

This peaceful and commemorative demonstration, called ''March for our lives'', will take place on March 24, in the District of Columbia. The march was confirmed by promoters students march, after finally settling on the day and the name of this civic protest.

Cameron Kasky. student school in Parkland, said that the march is directed not only toward the Republican government, or against Democrats, political opponents of the current administration of Donald Trump. The initiative also addresses those who have commercially benefited by the National Rifle Association (NRA), an organization that defends the free sale of weapons on US soil.

In addition to this initiative, on 21 February, one hundred students from different schools in the southeastern United States will go to Tallahassee, the state capital of Florida. There, they will meet with several senators of the country and Attorney General Pam Bondi to publicize the march officially and obtain political and social support. In this way, students will face the problem of legal bearing of arms.

The US government has not yet ruled on the actions it will take about gun control in the country. The opposition lobby, which defends the carrying and use of weapons in the United States, has in its favor the second amendment of the constitution that governs the nation. This dictates that each person has the right to carry a weapon and the State must guarantee that freedom.

The shooting has been the seventh most violent in the recent history of the United States. This event is below the shooting of Las Vegas in October 2017, which claimed 58 lives. In the case of massacres in schools, it is under Virginia Tech in 2007, which left a balance of 32 fatalities.

Latin American Post | David García
Translated from “ Estados Unidos: Washington D.C. se alista para la marcha a favor del control de armas ”