Rural western Ky. community, site of recent school shooting, rallies for gun safety - Entrepreneur Generations

March for Our Lives was one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam War, with at least 1.2 million participants across the U.S. and in foreign countries last weekend protesting gun violence and school shootings. Rural Americans held marches too, but tended to focus more on gun safety rather than gun control.

The speakers at a Marshall County, Kentucky, rally included Alonzo Pennington, a musician and hunting guide running for Congress as a Democrat. He opposes bump stocks because it "makes your gun inaccurate and it makes it malfunction," he told Camila Domonoske with WKMS-FM. He thinks restrictions on high-capacity magazines are sensible because "If you're too lazy to load a smaller clip, then you don't need to be taking the time out there and hunt anyhow." Marshall County was the site of a deadly school shooting in January; the students from Marshall County High School organized the march and several spoke. 

One of them was Makayla Wadkins, who said that society's propensity for blaming the mentally ill for school shootings makes it less likely for people struggling with mental illness to get the help they need. "After the shooting, Governor Matt Bevin called for a day of prayer. President Donald Trump said his 'thoughts and prayers' were with the victims. Students at the rally said that's not enough," WKMS reports.

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