Thousands of high school students across the country abandon lessons and walk out of their classrooms in grassroots protest at gun violence – one month after the Parkland massacre
Students across the country walked out of their schools at 10am local time in a mass protest
The #ENOUGH National School Walkout is to protest gun violence and support tighter gun control
It takes place exactly one month after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
The walkout in each location will last 17 minutes in honor of the 17 people killed in the deadly shooting
Viacom said it would suspend programming, including MTV and Comedy Central, at 10am in each US time zone for the 17 minutes
Several school districts across the US said they would discipline any student who participates in the walkout
On Tuesday, prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Douglas gunman Nikolas Cruz
MARY KEKATOS
DAILYMAIL.COM
14 March 2018
US teenagers from coast to coast on Wednesday joined students from the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last month in a national walkout.
The #ENOUGH National School Walkout, which began at 10am local time across the country, lasted 17 minutes, commemorating each of the students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
The walkout is part of a burgeoning, grass-roots movement that emerged immediately after the February 14 attack.
Led by student-survivors, activists have lobbied state and federal lawmakers, and even met with President Donald Trump, to call for new restrictions on gun ownership, a right protected by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
‘It’s really amazing how much awareness we’ve brought to this issue and so many people are willing to participate,’ said Stoneman Douglas senior Ashley Schulman on Tuesday.
Kicking off the protests were students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who congregated onto the campus’s outdoor track as they commemorated the 14 students and three faculty members who lost their lives in the deadly shooting.
In Washington, DC, hundreds of students sat and turned their backs to the White House as they held a rally on Pennsylvania Avenue.
In New York City, teenagers across the five boroughs joined the protest for stricter gun laws. At Fiorello H Laguardia High School in Manhattan, students sat and lay down, blocking West 62nd Street as part of the walkout
Despite frigid temeratures in some states, students braved the cold to showcase their support. Yarmouth High School in Maine and Stivers School for the Arts in Ohio were just two school where teenagers walked out in spite of the snow falling.
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