This Marcher Is Only 6. But As Her Sign Says, So Were The Sandy Hook Victims

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By Amanda Jackson and Dakin Andone

LONDON (CNN) -- Amidst the sea of protesters who gathered in London for a March of Lives demonstration stood 6-year-old Ella -- holding a sign that made it powerfully clear why she was there.

"I am 6," it said. "So were they."

Ella's mom, Wendy Tarpley-Naylor, is from Georgia but went to study in the UK in 2008. She told CNN she held her daughter as a baby after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.

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"(Ella) understands about the children who died at Newtown and responded, 'But they were only little kids! People who want to hurt others should not be allowed to have a gun!'"

Ella Naylor, 6, attends the March for Our Lives in London. (Photo/CNN)

Ella's mother agreed.

"It took moving 6000 miles to a country where most police don't even have guns," she told CNN, "but I have done a 180 on common sense gun reform."

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