Students stage walkouts and protests around the DMV in support of gun control (02/21/18)

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Hundreds of high school and middle school students around D.C., Maryland and Virginia are staging walkouts Wednesday in support of gun control in the wake of the Florida shooting.

Students from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville began marching out of their building at around 9:30 a.m. and walked to the Rockville Metro station to ride to the U.S. Capitol building in D.C.

Students from Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Montgomery Blair high schools in Montgomery County and Wakefield High School in Arlington Virginia are all among those staging walkouts following the latest mass shooting. - WJLA Washington D.C.

Tell me what democracy looks like.

[Leghorn21]

1. Oh thank you, darling children!!

—-All Power to The Kids—-

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It's starting to remind me of the antiwar movement of the '60s.

The kids made a difference then and they'll do it again now.

[Lindsay]

4. I've thought the same thing.

It's about seeing your actual life on the line - the draft in the 60s, the school shootings now.

I hope with every fiber of my being that they succeed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Exactly. It focuses the mind when your life and those of your friends

and siblings are on the line. When I was a teenager, in high school and then college, people I knew were being drafted and sent to Vietnam. Now you can't even go to school without worrying about some unhinged classmate or former student showing up without warning and shooting the place up - the sheer randomness of it is in some ways even more terrifying than the draft. I remember very well the energy we had and the fury we felt back in the '60s at the sheer injustice of the draft and the war itself, and this movement is starting to have a very similar vibe.

[NastyRiffraff]

3. Wonderful kids!

I'm proud they're in the county I live in.

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5. More coverage: Fox D.C.

Link to tweet

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-students-plan-school-walkouts-wednesday-in-support-of-stronger-gun-laws

[BigmanPigman]

7. THIS is what democracy looks like!

Here is info I received and put together to support gun control through govt., etc and also how, when, where there are planned Resistance events in April and March. The number has tripled since I first got the announcement on FAIR from The Women's March Organizers. There is a lot of info for everyone.
#-ENOUGH RESIST! My chant at the Walkout I am attending in San Diego at the Ed Center (district offices) will be...."Hey, hey, NRA How many kids did you kill today?".

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10112196