Hundreds rally for gun control outside the organization’s Houston meeting, calling on Americans to ‘protect kids, not guns’
fter two sleepless nights wondering what, if anything, she could do, Nancy Harris, 73, decided to drive four hours to Houston. Before she left, she pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down 12 names.
“I have no children left,” Harris said. “I drove from Fort Worth to tell these assholes they have to stop.”About 55,000 people were expected to attend the NRA annual meeting at the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston. Harris was among at least 500 others filling a park across the street to protest the group, just days after an 18-year-old gunman walked into an elementary school a few hours away and slaughtered 19 children and two adults.
Some groups, including Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and the local Democratic party, had set up booths to pass out signs, water and voter registration forms. Many more people gathered in a scrum directly across from the convention hall, shouting into megaphones with chants like “not one more” and “vote them out”.
A rally with speakers began around noon outside the Houston convention center with a moment of silence. Overhead, a plane carried a banner: “NRA GO AWAY.”chapter, then led a chant of “shame” toward the convention, across the street. The event’s organizer invited anyone who had been a victim of gun violence to come to the stage. A woman who introduced herself as Adrienne said her son had died after being shot in a road rage incident on Halloween 2019.
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