Fifty seven percent of Americans support a universal ban on assault weapons and yet millions of account holders at these six banks are unknowingly supporting the very companies that produce these guns.
GOP leaders also shuttered C-SPAN's live coverage of the protest, but that did not stop policy makers from tweeting and posting live feeds on Facebook and Periscope to disseminate their cause.
Uber, the convenient ride-sharing app, confirmed that 45-year-old Jason Brian Dalton was an employee with the company, stating he also passed a background check.
One out of every three days in January had a mass shooting.
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
"I learned that one of my family members became one of over 30,000 Americans who die every year as a result of gun violence. My cousin became one of the tragic statistics that I, unfortunately, cite most often in my work."
“An act of heroism a lot bigger than we should expect from any 15-year-old,” Obama said of the teenager.
Invoking the words of Martin Luther King Jr., the president said the country needs to possess a "fierce urgency of now" to combat gun violence and not only discuss the latest mass shooting, but prevent it.
During the program, President Obama is slated to talk about the negative impact that gun violence has had on our country and will take questions from attendees.
President Obama is set to announce an executive action on gun sales at the top of the new year.
