Photo by Donna Schillaci
Estimating crowd size is a tricky thing. Whether it's the attendees at a rock concert or, as with the anti-gun-violence March for Our Lives, the number willing to come out to express their views in a public rally, the amount of people is just about anyone's guess.
But no matter how high or how low the number is, it is impressive to be in the midst of a crowd so large that you can see nothing but people in very direction.
Estimates for the Washington D.C. March for Our Lives currently run anywhere from 205,000 to 850,000, and it is even hard to get a count on how many marches there were around the globe. There were almost 200,000 in New York City, and over 10,000 in virtually every other major city. Some said the Grand Rapids march had 4,000 demonstrators, others said 2,000. Approximately 60 people showed up in Muskegon.
Examiner writer Donna Schillaci, who attended in DC, said the march was very well-organized, better than the Women's March in early 2017, with well-executed on-stage events - impressive considering that most of the organizers were in their teens.
The survivors of the Parkland, Fla., attack on Feb. 14 formed Never Again MSD (for Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the name of the high school), who partnered with the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, could pat themselves on the back. But one has the feeling that they will not rest on their laurels until their real purpose - instituting commonsense gun control - is met.
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