In the wake of the deadly shooting at a Texas elementary school, students in the D.C. area walked out of class to call for stricter gun control laws as schools heightened and detailed their security procedures.
About 200 students at McLean High School in Fairfax County walked out of class about 1 p.m. Thursday to urge lawmakers to ban assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines, according to one of the organizers, 16-year-old Bennett Brunner. Students at Swanson Middle School in Arlington Public Schools also walked out of class to protest for 15 minutes around lunchtime. The walkouts were part of a nationwide demonstration organized by youth advocacy group Students Demand Action.
Brunner said adults consistently fail to listen to school-age children, who have the most at stake when it comes to school shootings.“Often, the older population looks down upon the youth and says, ‘What are you going to do about it? You can’t vote,’” Brunner said. “But … in four years we’re going to be the people with the ballots. If you do not have comprehensive and secure gun legislation, then you will be voted out of power, because it’s not getting better.
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