‘Never again, again.’ Kansas City rallies for gun safety laws in Missouri and Kansas

Following a recent wave of mass shootings and gun violence, people at a March for Our Lives rally called for a ban on assault weapons, universal background checks, and red flag laws.
Meredith Bills and her friend, Joni Hall, found it hard to believe that they had to use the same old signs again on Saturday to help a crowd call for gun safety laws in response to yet another wave of mass shootings.

Bills and Hall were marching buddies at the March For Our Lives rally in 2018, which was organized after the school shooting in Parkville, Florida. This time, Bills and Hall were using their old signs they made for the rally created in response to the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas.

“We’re doing ‘Never again,’ again,” Bills said. “We’re heartbroken humans, is what we are, and we’re sick of acting like there’s nothing we can do.”

About 100 people gathered under shade trees in Gillham Park on a day where temperatures reached into the 90s. They held signs reading, “Enough is enough,” or “Protect kids not guns.” Saturday’s March For Our Lives rally in Kansas City was one of hundreds nationwide, the largest held in Washington D.C.