Showing posts with label gun violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gun violence. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Sandy Hook remembered at NRA headquarters


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 Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie
Aalayah 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 Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/Photo by Patricia Leslie
Fairfax 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 Leslie

At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/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 Leslie
Fairfax 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 Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/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 Leslie
On 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 Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/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 Leslie
At NRA headquarters Dec. 14, 2022, Fairfax, VA/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 Leslie

The 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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Monday, May 30, 2022

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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