Wisconsin Chapter of March for our Lives rally advocates for gun reform

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – The Wisconsin Chapter of March for our Lives advocated for gun reform Saturday in a march held from Capitol Sq. to the Library Mall.

March for our Lives Wisconsin organizer Abbi Stickels says their message will not be about taking away weapons altogether, however discovering methods to forestall gun violence.

”It’s at all times about looking for gun violence prevention. The actual secret’s gun violence. We’re not making an attempt to remove rights, we’re not making an attempt to instigate battle,” she stated.

After 21 individuals had been killed in Texas final month within the Uvalde elementary college capturing, Stickels says it isn’t sufficient for individuals to supply their ideas and prayers alone.

”We’re simply making an attempt to make it so we’re proactive about gun violence prevention and never reactive with ideas and prayers and reactive with having to grieve the lack of extra lives,” she stated.

Retired instructor Mary O’Connor agrees. She was one in every of many who participated within the rally.

”As a result of ideas and prayers don’t do something till after the very fact. We have to do one thing earlier than. It must cease earlier than. That’s like we put on seatbelts to forestall.”

O’Connor’s daughter is a instructor who’s college just lately went by a lockdown of their very own with the specter of gun violence. That is what motivated her to march in Madison.

“I’m not for taking weapons away utterly. I’m for having restrictions and I’m for not army fashion weapons.”

Each she and Stickels hope legislators hear their requires motion.

This march in Madison was one in every of many held all through the nation at the moment, with these in their very own states searching for comparable solutions from their legislators.

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