Gays Against Guns Stage Protest At US Senate

Seven members of Gays Against Guns were arrested after staging a ‘die-in’ protest.
Capitol Police handcuffed the demonstrators after they entered the Hart Senate Building in in Washington D.C shortly after 12.30pm and laid on the floor.

Formed in the wake of the massacre at Pulse nightclub last year, the group are calling for gun control and campaign against the NRA’s control over Congress.
While the protest was in the works for weeks, it took place after a gunman opened fire in a church at Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Twenty-six people were killed.
At the Hart Senate Building, Gays Against Guns protested by holding the ‘die-in’ inside. While outside, other demonstrators chanted ‘you’re killing us with money from the NRA’.
Another chant was, ‘How many more have to die? Gun control now!’

An officer told them they were engaging in ‘unlawful conduct’, and a number of them were taken into custody’.
Gay Against Guns have demonstrated at Times Square after a mass shooting in Las Vegas killed 58 people and injured hundreds more.
Die-ins have also been held at New York Pride, Lincoln Memoiral, and the group have protested outside the homes of members of Congress with puppet effigies – showing how the NRA are pulling their strings.
‘This is a pain we know very well. There have been many mass shootings since Pulse, and we’ve seen this play out where an incident like this happens and politicians who gladly take checks from the NRA engage ritualistically on this surface display of grief, and nothing happens,’ John Becker, a spokesperson for the organization’s D.C. chapter, has said.

‘Over 30,000 Americans die every year as a result of gun violence, because we have prioritized unfettered access to murder weapons over human lives.’

While I am for a citizens right to own a gun I am adamantly against the believed lunacy that it should extend to assault weapons.
The real battle here isn't to ban all guns, nor should it be, but it would certainly be in the best interest of the country to limit what can be owned.
The problem is that gun restrictions are laws passed on the state level, not a national one.
There are so many differing laws state by state no one could keep abreast of it all.
What is needed is a nation wide guideline that is enforced in all states with particular attention payed to noncommercial free exchange/sales.
It is legal, in most of the country, to trade or resale guns at gunshows or private sales with out following any existing restrictions.
This is the biggest thing that needs to change, right up there with the sale of assault weapons.