Connecticut High Schoolers Organizing For Gun Control After Parkland Shooting

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High school students in Connecticut and across the country are pressing Congress to adopt stricter gun laws with a new sense of urgency after 17 people were gunned down at a Florida high school last week.

Teens are organizing largely through social media and have already formulated plans for vigils, marches and two nationwide school walkouts.

In Connecticut, some students cited the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown as an impetus for them to act.

Lane Murdock, a sophomore at Ridgefield High School, is the founder of the #NationalSchoolWalkout, a day-long demonstration planned for April 20 to coincide with the 19-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. She started a petition on change.org calling for a walkout that has received more than 75,000 signatures and started a Twitter account that now has more than 100,000 followers.
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A separate nationwide school walkout is being planned for March 14 to mark the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Students will leave their schools for 17 minutes to honor the 17 people killed in the shooting.

“It’s basically to protest a Congress” that doesn’t do more “than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to gun violence,” said Sarai Hertz-Velazquez, a junior at Hall High School in West Hartford. - Harford Courant

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1. Glad to hear this

One of the idiot Republicans running for governor this year has just announced that he wants to repeal the gun legislation passed here in the wake of Sandy Hook. And this despite the fact that homicides in CT have dropped dramatically since it passed. new Haven had 7 homicides in 2017 compared to 34 in 2011.