Martin Luther King’s Daughter Supports Students, Says Gun Changes Overdue

As the 50th anniversary of her father’s assassination approaches, the daughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. said Thursday that limiting access to guns is long overdue.

The Rev. Bernice King, speaking at The King Center in Atlanta, offered condolences to the families of the 17 people fatally shot Feb. 14 at a Florida high school and commended survivors for their activism to change gun laws.

She said she hopes people can “look toward solutions as these young people are forcing us to have the conversations, bipartisan conversations.” She also plans to join them for the “March for Our Lives” in Washington next month.