Arms control: demonstration in Montreal to support american neighbours

News 24 March, 2018

QMI agency

Saturday, 24 march, 2018 09:57

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Saturday, march 24, 2018 10:00

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MONTREAL | Of Montreal will join their voices to those of many others in the United States to demand better gun control.

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The participants at the montreal event, were expected at 10 p.m. at Cabot Square. They then had to move on Sainte-Catherine street to the u.s. consulate.

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The initiators montreal of the ‘March for Our Lives” (Walking for our lives) feel that it should not be “cynical and accept that special interest groups write [the] laws, while 90 % of Americans are in favor of measures to control access to firearms”.

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“The shooting of 14 February [Parkland, fl] that has left 17 people dead and 15 wounded, was the 28th killing of 2018. These killings can not continue to be weekly events”, one reads in the convening of the event.

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In Washington, almost 500 000 people, including students, are expected to take this action, which is held in several other american cities with the theme : “never again !”