Students in Denver to protest gun violence Saturday

DENVER (KDVR) — This Saturday, gun violence prevention will take middle stage at tons of of rallies and marches throughout the USA. Teenagers are coming collectively simply as they did in 2018 following the lethal mass taking pictures at a highschool in Parkland, Florida.

This time the rallies are in response to 19 college students and two academics who had been gunned down in a Texas classroom and what they mentioned is a tragic lack of change.

In response to the March for Our Lives homepage, there are 12 occasions occurring throughout Colorado.  

Brady Roland, a 17-year-old highschool senior, is certainly one of a number of teenagers answerable for organizing this weekend’s rally occurring in Downtown Denver at Civic Middle Park. She was additionally at a March for Our Lives march as a 13-year-old again in 2018.  

“It’s most likely the factor I care probably the most about,” Roland mentioned.

She defined that he hopes these in energy are simply as fed up with gun violence and can be a part of them this Saturday.

“9- and 10-year-olds died. Like they had been shot to demise in school and if that’s not sufficient to make you care, I don’t know what’s,” Roland mentioned.

The occasion at Civic Middle Park will probably be a rally and never a march as a result of organizers couldn’t safe a allow for a march in time.

It can run from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Go to the March for Our Lives web site for particulars in regards to the occasions occurring throughout the nation, together with in Colorado.