Police estimate 6,000 people gathered at Dallas City Hall joining the hundreds of thousands who marched across the country. As in other parts of the country, students took the lead in the local protest.
Teachers were visible as they carried signs protesting the idea that they should be first responders. “Bullets aren’t school supplies,” read one sign. Other signs taunted “gun rights” supporters over their fear of transgender people rather than a fear of semi-automatic weapons.
As a reminder that the NRA would have its convention in Dallas on May 4-6 and that more protests would happen then, the march route passed by the Dallas Convention Center, where the NRA will convene.
The only counter-protesters were a group of five “pro-life” activists who shouted at the marchers that they weren’t Christians proving once again that support for life among anti-abortionists ends at birth.
— David Taffet
