24 March,2018 08:50 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
Galvanised by a massacre at a Florida high school, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to take to the streets in cities across the US yesterday in the biggest protest for gun control in a generation.
The student-organised "March For Our Lives" is to feature rallies from coast to coast, with the main event scheduled to take place in Washington within sight of the US Capitol. "The kids are leading the movement," said Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, where 20 children were killed in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida - where 17 people were shot dead on February 14 by a former classmate - have been the driving force behind the march.
With a mixture of outrage and passion, they have been relentlessly badgering US lawmakers to enact a ban on assault rifles and to expand background checks to cover all gun purchases.
"The march is just the start," said Aalayah Eastmond, a student who took shelter beneath the body of a classmate during the school shooting.
