Joel Connelly writes in the Seattle P-I:

Hundreds of Seattle-area faith activists returned to Temple de Hirsch Sinai on Sunday, where religious leaders launched the city’s movement to curb gun violence a week after the December, 2012, assassination of 20 first graders at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

Out of the movement came Initiative 594, the measure on Washington’s November ballot that would close the “gun show loophole” by requiring criminal background checks for those purchasing firearms at gun shows and on the Internet.

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By winning in a Western state, the I-594 campaign wants to sow hope in the nation’s gun safety movement — a movement largely stymied by the National Rifle Association and a gun lobby that strikes fear into the hearts of politicians.

Read the full article and view photos of the march here.