March for Our Lives founder urges people abroad to protest at U.S. embassies

• After a shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that killed 10 and another at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that left 19 children and two adults dead, the country has continued to be rocked by gun violence.
• At least 11 people were killed and 54 were injured in seven separate mass shootings over the weekend.

Driving the news: Hogg encouraged people to hold marches outside of U.S. embassies in their countries on June 11 and demand "our government do something about gun safety."

• "The more protests we can get outside US embassies the better," Hogg wrote in a tweet. "We must make the fact that our government has done nothing to protect our kids even more of an international embarrassment."

Background: Hogg, a survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, founded March for Our Lives in 2018.

• In addition to the D.C. march on June 11, the organization is also hosting more than 100 sister marches in 45 states.