At National Rifle Association headquarters today in Fairfax, VA, protesters gathered on this sad day of the 10th anniversary of the murders of 20 school children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. Activists direct attention to the lack of gun control in the United States, fostered by the NRA and compliant legislators. Those who want to help reduce violence in schools may contact Sandy Hook Promise/Photo by Patricia Leslie At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAalayah Eastman, a survivor of the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas shooting in Parkland, Florida addresses the crowd at NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieFairfax County Public School Board member Karl Frisch from Providence District holds a sign "Graduations NOT Funerals" at NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA where he was a speaker/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieFairfax County Board of Supervisors member James R. Walkinshaw (center, green scarf) from Braddock District addressed the crowd at NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA, calling the NRA, "morally bankrupt"/Photo by Patricia Leslie
Was it coincidence that VDOT's construction crew came during the hour of short speeches at the anti-gun violence rally at NRA headquarters in Fairfax, VA to unload a heavy piece of equipment at the speakers' tent and compete with speakers, attempting to drown them out? Had the NRA sought help from the state agency?
As one speaker said: "Nothing will keep us quiet!" Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie
It was odd, or maybe it wasn't, that VDOT unloaded a heavy piece of equipment at NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA at the speakers' tent to compete with speakers/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieOn the 14 of every month at NRA headquarters in Fairfax, VA, protesters gather to remember the slaughter of the 26 innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School. One "regular" said today's crowd on Dec. 14, 2022, was about double the usual number who come. Protesters lined both sides of the street/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieAt NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia LeslieThe names and ages of the innocents killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT on Dec. 14, 2012. On the hearse are two signs: "10 years" and "Are We Safer?" At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie
About half the drivers which passed the scene at NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA, did, indeed, honk/Photo by Patricia Leslie
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Was it coincidence that VDOT's construction crew came during the hour of short speeches at the anti-gun violence rally at NRA headquarters in Fairfax, VA to unload a heavy piece of equipment at the speakers' tent and compete with speakers, attempting to drown them out? Had the NRA sought help from the state agency? 
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