Thousands of students at
schools across the country walked out of class today, took a knee inside their
school building or linked arms in class hallways to memorialize those who have
died in gun violence and to demand more action from US lawmakers.
The following summary marks
the end of our coverage of today’s National Walk Out, but we’ll be back with a
fresh live blog in a couple weeks for the next nationwide gun violence protest:
the March For Our Lives on 24 March.
Highlights from today’s
action:
At the Parkland, FL site of
the attack that inspired today’s protests, Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school
students walked out of class. Principal Ty Thompson commended his students for
their strength over the last few weeks and praised them for their #Never Again
campaign for gun reform. “We are going to make change. It’s already started,”
he told the crowd of 3,000.
More than 100 students
walked out of class and took a knee at Booker T Washington high school in
Atlanta, where Martin Luther King was a student. “Dr King carries a legacy even
in death, so I feel as if it’s an obligation to carry on what he wanted and
what he was trying to fight for and that’s why this day is very important,”
said Markail Brooks, a student.
Politicians faced
protesters in the US capital, where lawmakers debated stricter gun violence
measures. Student protestors at the capitol building rejected some of the
proposals being discussed in the wake of Parkland, including Donald Trump’s
plan to arm teachers.
Just across the river from
the White House, two 11-year-olds had organized a walkout at their Alexandria,
Virginia school. “I hope adults in general will realize, if they haven’t
already, that this is a really big issue, and that innocent people have lost
their lives,” said Naomi Wadler.
And in California and Las
Vegas, hundreds of students gathered to push for stricter gun laws. “This is
the only country in the world where these mass shootings happen regularly,”
said Quinn Bosselman, a student in Huntington Beach, CA……………….
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2018/mar/14/wednesday-walkout-gun-control-parkland-florida-students-live
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