Students walked out of classrooms across the country at 10am local time on Friday—the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre—for the latest in a series of recent youth-led demonstrations to demand stricter gun laws.
Student protesters and their supporters shared updates from walkouts throughout the country with the hashtag #NationalSchoolWalkout.
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Mounting calls to enhance gun control through state and federal legislation have come in response to a series of mass school shootings—most recently in February, when a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Parkland, Florida. Parkland survivors have played key roles in driving this national movement to end gun violence.
In solidarity with students from more than 2,000 U.S. high schools who planned to protest on Friday, students from Chapel Hill, North Carolina walked out while chanting, “Guns don’t die. Children do.”
Students in Washington, D.C. gathered outside the U.S. Capitol and the White House to remember victims of gun violence, including those killed at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. On Thursday, students from Columbine High School hosted a “Vote For Our Lives” rally to register local teens ahead of the November midterm elections.
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