REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) - More than 1,000 people - from students to senior citizens - gathered in a beach town in Delaware to protest gun violence.
The Rehoboth Beach crowd took part Saturday in March for Our Lives, the student-led protests in Washington, D.C. and in cities around the country.
The News Journal reports that the group observed a moment of silence for all those killed by gun violence. Children held up signs with the names of the 17 students and educators killed in last month’s shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Jasmine Finney, a 7th-grader at Beacon Middle School, challenged the idea that younger children don’t understand what is happening when a school shooting occurs. She said: “We are never too young to understand when a life has been taken away.”
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Information from: The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., http://www.delawareonline.com
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