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Students across the US stage school walkouts in protest of gun violence [Video]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Hundreds of students nationwide staged protests and school walkouts two days after the Texas school shooting in Uvalde.
- Students who joined the protests are demanding gun control measures.
- Research from Everytown for Gun Safety found that 274 mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. since 2009, killing 1,536 people.
Hundred of students across the U.S. staged protests and school walkouts on Thursday in the wake of the Texas school shooting in Uvalde. Students are outraged by lawmakers’ inaction on gun violence.
Students nationwide, from Meridian High School in Virginia to El Camino Real Charter High School in California, joined walkouts to demand gun control measures.
In Providence, Rhode Island, students from several schools laid down outside the Rhode Island State House for three minutes, according to a Twitter post from state Sen. Tiara Mack (D).
More than 100 students walked out of class at Oxford High School in Michigan on Thursday, according to the Detroit Free Press. In November, four students were killed in the school as it suffered its own deadly shooting.
WCCO, a local CBS affiliate reported that students at Buffalo High School in Buffalo, Minnesota also took part in a walkout on Thursday. Buffalo was also a shooting site last year at Allina Health Buffalo Crossroads Clinic where a medical assistant died and several others were injured.
The 2021 Buffalo shooting is not to be confused with the recent mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., where 10 people were fatally shot at a grocery store more than a week ago.
Students Demand Action, a national organization against gun violence, coordinated some of the protests.
Research from Everytown for Gun Safety found that 274 mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. since 2009, killing 1,536 people.
The nonprofit organization, which advocates for gun control and against gun violence, reveals that in the last 12 years, one in every four victims of a mass shooting was a child.
Lawmakers have delayed passing any gun legislation through Congress despite the frequency of mass shootings in the country.
Source: The Hill
Clyde
May 27, 2022 at 7:41 pm
The country needs to “sucker punch ” Congress and take away some of their benefits to pay for our PINO’s 3 trillion dollars fiascos. Why is it always the retirees, Veterans, and needy ones on Social Security who are always the ones to “lose benefits”?You surely don’t see these hooligans in Congress losing their benefits. How do they go to Congress and all at once become millionaires? Is it because of insider “deals” and they know what is coming up before Congress to vote on???
CharlieSeattle
May 27, 2022 at 11:12 pm
I am not concerned about a patriot multi-billionaire that later became an unpaid politician.
I am very concerned about leftist politicians that later became multi-millionaires!
Lynne
May 28, 2022 at 7:21 am
You are Soooo Correct. Those Mofo’s have No Shame, while their children don’t worry, their wives enjoy tea gatherings in mansions and are some of the Ugliest women ever born!! Remove the makeup and see the real wrinkles. America, need younger leadership instead of Wimps-Drunks-Greedy Nobody’s. I wonder how they would feel and react if their grandchildren were killed in any school shooting? Ooops I forgot, their kids don’t have to worry because they are Well Protected with my expense. HOW SILLY OF ME to think they attend a regular school😡
Leslie
May 27, 2022 at 8:46 pm
Well Nancy did just give CONGRESS a raise, but to hell with the people…
How come students don’t realize that there are many gun laws out there, but criminals are not going to follow them! More laws won’t stop criminals or mentally disturbed persons from going on rampages. There is no reason why legal guns or legal gun owners should be punished by these shootings! Congress is not going to pass more stupid laws, because they need something to complain about and rile people up.
I need to keep my guns for protection from the craziness they are causing, open borders, mental instability, all the hate the liberals push on us everyday.
bob
May 27, 2022 at 9:08 pm
I have had my guns for over 60 years and not one time have I had to actually pull one in self defense but I have stopped 2 robbery’s an i car jacking by showing that I have a gun and was willing to use it. Youn will not get my GUNS.
CharlieSeattle
May 27, 2022 at 11:09 pm
CORRECTION…
Students across the US stage school walkouts in protest of teachers that leave doors open and cowardly cops.
Reality is hard to admit.
bruce
May 28, 2022 at 10:53 am
In 2013 a bill was passed in the Senate but failed in the democratic house. The bill would have provided police at the door of schools, bullet proof doors and windows, a single point of entry and exit. and other security measures that would protected our students. The Democrats filibustered the bill and it was never voted on. Cruz and Grassley put the bill together. How come democrats just want to take away guns from law abiding citizens and not protect our schools from crazy people? Is there a pattern here where democrats don’t actually care about citizens, only about control and power?