WASHINGTON: A number of people took to the streets outside the White House here on Thursday to protest the rampant gun violence and the recent school shootings in the United States.
The demonstrators, which comprised students from various schools in DC area as well as activists, reiterated their demand to lawmakers to make gun laws stricter.
With slogans calling for strong legislation to be implemented on weapons as well as placards against the National Rifle Association (NRA), the two-hour protest attracted scores of exchange students from different countries who turned up specifically after last week’s massacre in Santa Fe, Texas, which left 10 people — including Pakistan-born Sabika Sheikh — dead.
The protest’s organiser herself was a Pakistani exchange student.
Speaking to Geo.tv, Isra Cheema, a friend of Sheikh, explained that she felt it necessary to organise the rally to call for the government to reviews its gun policy and take measures that would prevent future shootings.
“We think it’s completely unacceptable that so many kids in our country have died from gun violence,” said one of the protesters.
“We want the NRA and the White House and the Congress members to listen to us and implement common sense gun control because it is really common sense,” she added.
