Oakland students and the community called for stricter gun control laws in student-led March for Our Lives.
The weekend heat wave didn’t stop Coliseum College Prep Academy students from calling on the Oakland community to join them Saturday in a “March for Our Lives,” part of a nationwide movement for stricter gun laws sparked by outrage over several recent mass shootings at a grocery store in Buffalo, an elementary school in Texas and a hospital in Oklahoma.
“The kids who died were around the same age as me,” Ibarra said in an interview a day before the rally. “I really just want these guns control laws. We need them. We really do. We need these laws to get to a vote.” Brianna Gonzalez, 13, one of Ibarra’s classmates, brought the national story home in an emotional testimony .
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 11: People take part in a March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, June 11, 2022. The rally was held to protest the impacts of gun violence in their communities, as part of a nationwide call for action.
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