Students Walkout Across Country to Support Florida School-Shooting Survivors

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Source: The Daily Beast

Students in multiple states staged school walkouts Wednesday to stand in solidarity with the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School one week after gunman killed 17 people there. A number of schools in South Florida area staged short walkouts at noon, and students at Florida State University gathered to march in favor of new gun-control measures. Students from Montgomery County, Maryland took the streets to march towards Capitol Hill and hold demonstrations at D.C.’s Union Station. School walkouts also took place in Phoenix, Cincinnati, and Minneapolis. Meanwhile, in Texas, one district superintendent threatened to suspend any student that participated in such a walkout. “In conjunction with students nationwide, we are demanding that our voices be heard,” wrote a student organizer in Minneapolis on the walkout’s Facebook event. “We demand that our lawmakers pass regulations to make it more difficult for assault rifles to fall into the hands of those proven to have violent intent.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/students-walkout-across-country-to-support-florida-school-shooting-survivors

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Tell me what democracy looks like.

CNN.com Headline:

WALKOUT

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. My daughter said it is happening in Seattle too.

[Voltaire2]

2. We need the children to step up and save us.

They need to shame us into ending this nightmare.

[blueinredohio]

3. I'll bet it didn't happen in my bright red area of the country

[Nitram]

4. Good for them!

[appalachiablue]

5. Bravo!