Falls Church Memorial Day Parade and 'Safe Guns'

The group probably receiving the loudest applause block after block along the route of the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, Virginia, was the Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence/Photo by Patricia Leslie

He marched in the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA, the crowds cheered when the Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence marched by. Some left their seats and joined the walk/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence assembled for the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA.

One nearby resident saw the group forming and immediately jumped up to join the march and offer her home's bathrooms to group members.  She said she was from Texas and "ashamed" of what's happening there.

Another marcher was a woman who drove to Falls Church from Harrisonburg, VA, who said she attends the monthly protest at NRA Headquarters in Fairfax on the 14th, the anniversary day of the Sandy Hook and Parkland killings. 

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

This woman on oxygen marched with the Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence in the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Concerned Citizens' booth, voters could sign postcards addressed to U.S. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner urging new legislation to help stop gun violence.

Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence in the booth at the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church.

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

This woman came from Tennessee Sunday night to join Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence and march in the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Boy Scout Troop 1996 tried to row their boat ashore in the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Boy Scout Troop 1996 in the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Cub Scout Pack 1127 from McLean in the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Would you walk a mile in these shoes?  At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

At the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Congressman Don Beyer shook hands with voters at the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

Falun Dafa of DC in the Memorial Day Parade in Falls Church, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie

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