Published Saturday, January 26, 2013 7: 33 AM EST
Last updated on Saturday, January 26, 2013 11: 27 PM EST
WASHINGTON-thousands of people, many holding signs of gun violence victims, and messages such as "assault weapons Ban now" joined a rally on Saturday, marching to the Capitol laukussaan Washington Monument.
Participants were lead to the Mayor Vincent Gray and other officials Saturday morning and the crowd stretched about two blocks of Constitution Avenue. Police closed half way through.
The participants held signs reading "Gun Control now" and "stop the NRA" with the rest of the posts. The other characters were simple and white gun violence victims ' names.
Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 in the first degree and six teachers at the school in December, is expected to be about 100 inhabitants. The rally was held in response to the shooting.
When the mob arrived at the Memorial, speakers demanded that the military-style assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the crowd, it does not apply to the second amendment gun rights, but will take a gun safety and save lives. He said he and President Barack Obama would do its utmost to enact the policy laukussaan.
"We must act, we must act, we must act," Duncan said.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, d.c. del. 's representative in Congress said the right to vote, the gun lobby can be stopped. The crowd shouted back, "Yes, we can."
Norton said the nation does not act in the previous mass killings, but he said "we the people" not to give up this time.
"We are all guilty if we do not now," Norton said
Norwalk, Connecticut, the participant Kara Baekey said that when he heard about the shooting, she immediately thought of the Newtown her two small children. He said, that he decided he must take action, and that's why he joined in March.
"I wanted to make sure this does not happen with my children to school or any other school," Baekey said. "It's just not going to happen again."
James Agenbroad, Garrett Park, MD, 78 handwritten signs carried a cardboard, which read "to repeal the second amendment." He called it the only way to stop the massacres, because, in his opinion, the Supreme Court to strike down other restrictions on guns.
"You can undo it," he said. "We will be able to overturn the ban."
Molly, the artistic director of Arena stage in Washington and his companions organized in March. The organizers said that in addition to the 100 participants from New Jersey, the line is expected to be in Newtown, New York and Philadelphia. Others are flying to Seattle, San Francisco and even Alaska.
Even though he has never held a political March before, Smith said, he was forced to push for a change of the law. March organizers to support President Barack Obama's call for military-style assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, as well as a ban on the sale of the weapon in the hands of the General background explanations. They also want lawmakers to require gun purchasers of firearms safety training.
"The consistency of mass-killings and the drum shock, it's always something that's moving and devastating for me. And then there is if I move on, "Smith said. "And at the moment will not be able to move forward. I can not move.
"I think that because of that, it was the children, babies," he said. "I was horrified by these deliberate it."
When Connecticut-firing Smith posted something on Facebook, and drew more support to do something. A group of one million mothers, Washington National Cathedral and two churches, was signed at the end of the day, presented in March. Organizers have raised more than $ 46,000 on the net to pay the fees and to organize the rally.
Legislators in Columbia and Maryland was scheduled to speak on Saturday. Actress Kathleen Turner was expected to appear, as well as Marian Wright Edelman children's Defense Fund and Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre.
Smith said that he supports a comprehensive look at mental health and violence in video games and movies. But he said the mass killings at Virginia Tech, and Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., it all starts with the arms.
"It is a question of weapons. In the second report, the right to own guns, but it does not have the right to own a gun, "he said. "These are assault weapons made by killing people."
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