Each bag represents around 150 people killed by guns in the U.S. since the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead and 17 more injured
Fake body bags covered the National Mall Thursday in a message to lawmakers about gun violence.
The bags were part of an art installation by gun control advocacy group March for Our Lives, marking four years since the group's first rally in D.C. in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The more than 1,100 bags spelled out the words"thoughts and prayers," which organizers said serve as a reminder to Congress that those words alone are not enough to end gun violence.
"We often hear politicians again again, 'we send our thoughts and prayers' and today we wanted to reverse that message to show them the cost of just sending those thoughts and prayers without acting, which are these people," said David Hogg, a gun control activist who survived the Parkland shooting.
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