Activists install 7,000 shoes on Capitol Hill, saying the installation represents the number of lives lost since the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown. Demonstrators placed 7,000 pairs of shoes on the lawn outside the U.S. Capitol as a monument to the 7,000 children killed due to gun violence, including school shootings, since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in late 2012. Monument for Our Kids was created by Avaaz, an international group that organizes demonstrations for progressive causes. The group set out the thousands of shoes on the southeast lawn of the Capitol grounds around 8 a.m. Tuesday.
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