Metro Detroit's Five March for Our Lives Events Are Part of Wide Focus on Gun Laws

While some Metro Detroit students and adults head to the national capital for Saturday's main gun control demonstration in response to the Valentine's Day school shooting in Florida, others will rally closer to home. March for Our Lives events are organized in Detroit, Grosse Pointe Farms, Rochester, Keego Harbor and Ann Arbor. A student-led march through downtown begins at 11 a.m. at Rivard Plaza, where Atwater Street meets Riverwalk, and ends around 12:30 behind Renaissance Center. "Detroiters will march at the riverfront in view of Canada, a country that has 51 times fewer gun deaths than the United States," an online blurb says. Listed speakers include U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and State Reps. Stephanie Chang of Detroit and Robert Wittenberg of Oak Park. Among participating  groups are Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Black Youth Project/Movement for Black Lives and Ceasefire Detroit.