March For Our Lives, No Longer Protesting In Streets, Unveils Gun Control Plan
The group says its plan could prevent 200,000 gun deaths over 10 years. It calls for creating a national registry and starting a buyback program and creating a national gun czar.
by Brakkton Booker
Aug 21, 2019
3 minutes
Updated at 12:45 p.m. ET
With their hopes fading that lawmakers in Washington will pass new gun safety measures, young activists from March for Our Lives are out with their own plans on how to stem gun violence.
The proposal, called A Peace Plan, comes a little more than two weeks after a pair of mass shootings claimed the lives of 31 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. In the days after those shootings, President Trump signaled there was "a very strong appetite for background checks" on people seeking to purchase firearms.
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