Marching for their lives: Hundreds fall silent outside the US embassy in London as historic anti-gun protests take place across the globe
Protests are taking place across the globe as part of the March for Our Lives Campaign for US gun control
Thousands of people are expected at a protest in Washington DC, including students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed in February and celebrities such as Amy Schumer were in LA
In London, thousands fell silent outside the new US embassy where campaigners spoke of Dunblane and need for the White House to take responsibilty
By BRIDIE PEARSON-JONES
DAILYMAIL.COM
24 March 2018
Protests are taking place across the globe against school shootings and US gun control.
Rallies attended by children, students, families who have been affected by gun violence as well as celebrities and members of the public are going on as part of the March For Our Lives campaign.
Thousands of people protested in Washington DC, including students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed in February.
Actresses Amy Schumer, Yara Shahidi, Connie Britton and Olivia Wilde are set to address crowds at the protest in Los Angeles.
A protest has been organised to happen outside the new US Embassy in London. The US flag flew at half mast at the previous embassy site after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in Connecticut, in 2012.
Amnesty International UK’s director Kate Allen pointed to Britain’s own experience of school killings with the Dunblane Primary School tragedy in 1996 in which 16 pupils and a teacher were murdered.
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