Presidential candidates focus on gun violence, school safety at policy forum
Any political candidate would agree that students and educators deserve better than to live in fear of a shooting at their school. But what do the 2020 presidential candidates actually plan to do about the issue of rampant gun violence in America?
Nine presidential candidates got on stage to answer that question at a forum in Las Vegas on Wednesday, nearly 2 years to the day after a gunman killed 58 people at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip.
(Sen. Bernie Sanders planned to be at the forum, but was forced to cancel after undergoing a heart procedure.)
The forum was organized by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and March for Our Lives, the organization founded by student survivors of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in which seventeen students and educators were killed.
In the audience were many activists whose lives have been touched by gun violence—not only mass shootings, but also suicides, accidental shootings, and unrelenting, commonplace gun violence on the streets of their communities. Nearly 40,000 Americans died from gunshot CONTINUE READING: Presidential candidates focus on gun violence, school safety at policy forum - Education Votes
