On the final evening of the Democratic Party Convention, victims of gun violence and activists advocating for more gun control will have their say.

Before Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage, former Arizona state Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head during a campaign rally in 2011, Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA), who lost her son to gun violence in 2012, and the “Tennessee Three,” a group of state legislators who were expelled from the Tennessee state legislature for leading a protest against gun violence following the Covenant 2023 school massacre, will speak at the DNC on Thursday.

“I was here in 2016. … Back then, then-Secretary of State (Hillary) Clinton was the only presidential candidate who explicitly embraced a comprehensive gun violence prevention agenda,” McBath told NBC News. “Now we’re in 2024. It’s so completely different. It’s so completely different now. We’re now the Davids against the Goliath of the scourge of gun violence in this country.”

Gun violence is one of the most important issues for Democrats this election cycle. The Democrats’ 92-page platform devotes five pages to how lawmakers plan to improve gun safety, policing and public safety.

“All Americans have the right to be free from fear: to have their children come home safely from the grocery store or the playground, and to have their loved ones come home safely from their shift as street cops,” the platform states.

The Biden administration established the first Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the White House, with Harris appointed to lead it.

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The office has worked to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed by President Joe Biden in 2022. This 2022 law establishes federal penalties for bogus firearm trafficking, strengthens background checks for people under 21, and ensures that people convicted of domestic violence are prohibited from purchasing firearms.

In addition to appearing on the DNC stage, McBath will moderate a discussion between activists and gun violence survivors on how best to combat gun violence. Panelists include Abbey Clements, a second-grader and survivor of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, and Kimberly Rubio, whose daughter was killed in a 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.