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Related: About this forumNewtown residents to join gun control march in DC
WASHINGTON - Residents from Newtown, Conn., are joining a march on Washington for gun control on Saturday with parents, pastors, survivors of gun violence and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Organizers said they are expecting thousands of participants for the rally on the National Mall, including about 100 from Newtown and buses from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco and even Alaska. They will gather Saturday at the Capitol Reflecting Pool at 10 a.m. and will begin marching down Constitution Avenue toward the Washington Monument at 11 a.m. A rally is planned on the monument grounds at noon.
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington's Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march, inspired by the December massacre that killed 20 first graders and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, she said. The gunman also fatally shot his mother and committed suicide.
"With the drum roll, the consistency of the mass murders and the shock of it, it is always something that is moving and devastating to me. And then, it's as if I move on," Smith said. "And In this moment, I can't move on. I can't move on.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130126_ap_newtownresidentstojoinguncontrolmarchindc.html
Organizers said they are expecting thousands of participants for the rally on the National Mall, including about 100 from Newtown and buses from New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. Others are flying in from Seattle, San Francisco and even Alaska. They will gather Saturday at the Capitol Reflecting Pool at 10 a.m. and will begin marching down Constitution Avenue toward the Washington Monument at 11 a.m. A rally is planned on the monument grounds at noon.
Molly Smith, the artistic director of Washington's Arena Stage, and her partner organized the march, inspired by the December massacre that killed 20 first graders and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, she said. The gunman also fatally shot his mother and committed suicide.
"With the drum roll, the consistency of the mass murders and the shock of it, it is always something that is moving and devastating to me. And then, it's as if I move on," Smith said. "And In this moment, I can't move on. I can't move on.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20130126_ap_newtownresidentstojoinguncontrolmarchindc.html
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Newtown residents to join gun control march in DC (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Jan 2013
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SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)1. Thousands rally in Washington for gun control
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)2. One thing I don't like about both sides of any issue
is dragging kids along as props.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)3. Not content with appeal-to-emotion fallacies...
...now they're gonna roll out industrial-strength, turbocharged appeal-to-emotion fallacies.
Clames
(2,038 posts)4. More like commercial strength.
Their numbers usually pale in comparison.
http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2013/01/19/video-gun-rights-supporters-rally-at-state-capitol-after-new-law/