From New York to Texas… Recently, there has been a series of mass shootings in the United States, regardless of region. In the end, the citizens stepped in. Tens of thousands of people in 450 U.S. cities have taken to the streets, calling for laws to regulate guns.
Correspondent Kim Jae-hyun.
[기자]
The National Mall in Washington, D.C. is crowded with people.
There are regarding 50,000 people who want to regulate gun use.
Not just here.
In 450 cities including New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Atlanta, citizens poured into the streets.
They say let’s defeat the politicians who oppose gun control.
[투표로 그들을 퇴출시키자! 퇴출시키자!]
Recently, there have been mass shootings in Uvaldi, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, and 31 people, including 19 teenagers, have been killed.
The protests were led by survivors of the 2018 Parkland High School shooting in Florida, which killed 17 people.
They have been demanding gun control for the past four years, but they have complained that the disaster has been repeated and that it should be changed now.
[데이비드 호그/집회 주최자·총기 난사 생존자 : 작은 관들이 소름 끼치게 합니다. 작고 부서진 몸이 담긴 작은 관 말입니다. 내일, 다음 주, 다음 해가 아니라 지금 바뀌어야 합니다!]
Citizens said that no one was exempt from gun damage.
[딜런 드리컨/시위 참가 학생 : 나는 매일 친구를 잃을까, 내가 죽을까 두려워하면서 학교에 가는 것에 지쳤어요.]
[타라 콕스/시위 참가자 : 당신의 인류애는 어디 있습니까? 아이 19명이 죽었는데도 마음이 움직이지 않는다면, 당신은 인간성이 없는 거예요.]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed some regulatory bills on the 8th, raising the age for buying guns from 18 to 21 and banning the sale of large-capacity magazines.
But even this is unlikely to pass in the Senate once morest Republican opposition.
President Biden also supported large-scale protests on the same day and repeatedly urged Congress to pass the bill.