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The Associated Press reports:
Protesters holding signs and crosses with photos of victims from this week’s Texas elementary school shooting, converged Friday outside the gun lobby National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston. Protesters, some shouting “NRA go away,” and “Shame, it could be your kids today,” jeered as thousands of members of the nation’s biggest gun lobby thronged the conventional center.
Tuesday’s fatal shooting of 19 Uvalde, Texas, students and two teachers by an 18-year-old gunman equipped with an AR-15 style semiautomatic assault rife is expected to limit attendance at the group’s first convention in three years. Tim Hickey, a Marine Corps veteran attending the event, dismissed the protests. “These people are puppets and sheep to the media. They are not changing anyone’s mind,” he said.
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Yeah this time is gonna be different. This is in front of the NRA convention in Houston. pic.twitter.com/3BLhKK1St9
— David Hogg ? (@davidhogg111) May 27, 2022
At Discovery Green across the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston where people have gathered to protest the NRA’s annual convention set to take place there following the Robb Elementary School schooting in Uvalde, Texas earlier this week. pic.twitter.com/YsVBI8qnOX
— Ariana Garcia ?? (@Ariana_noGrande) May 27, 2022
Energy is high at the anti-NRA protest despite it being over 90 degrees Fahrenheit in the sun. pic.twitter.com/3ietWhsKgp
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) May 27, 2022
Candidate for attorney general Rochelle Garza speaks to the crowd about the inaction since Sandy Hook and how Abbott and others have cozied up to the gun lobby. pic.twitter.com/YdN7w0zFid
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) May 27, 2022
“Please join us now or be left behind,” @BetoORourke says at a protest across from the NRA convention in Houston. pic.twitter.com/Ll0ZFfFXD3
— Jennifer Hiller (@Jennifer_Hiller) May 27, 2022
Shocking development: They just announced at the NRA convention that Trump is going to be late.
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
People protest outside the annual NRA convention in Houston just days after the Uvalde, Texas school shooting | ?: Getty Images pic.twitter.com/f1Yt5xT2Et
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) May 27, 2022
U.S Representative Sheila Jackson Lee speaks at the NRA protest outside of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
The pictures of the victims and casket says it all! #UvaldeschoolMassacre #NRAconvention @JacksonLeeTX18 pic.twitter.com/aXEOZdT6JZ
— Sydney Simone (@SydneySimone1) May 27, 2022
My daughter just snapped this photo at the protest outside the NRA Convention #NRAconvention pic.twitter.com/0BPwTP7nPO
— Teresa Cobb (@tcobb_lexloci) May 27, 2022
Lots of children at the protest today. Children on stage at Discovery Green wear photos of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting. #NRAconvention pic.twitter.com/NwWP5yNHTG
— Ariana Garcia ?? (@Ariana_noGrande) May 27, 2022
Protest outside the NRA Convention in Houston, Texas. This sign pretty much says it all. pic.twitter.com/lklGmLtpa0
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 27, 2022
Here’s the scene as Beto O’Rourke speaks at the protest outside the NRA convention. pic.twitter.com/fEVn5VgB0G
— Eric Bradner (@ericbradner) May 27, 2022
#nomoreshootings protest outside #NRA convention in #Houston pic.twitter.com/QTq9S42Ff8
— Gustavo Valdés (@gustavocnn) May 27, 2022