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One student's poster during the walkout in New York.

Yesterday students all over the US walked out of the classroom from an estimated 3,000 schools to stop and bring awareness to gun violence. They walked around the streets holding signs that read ' ENOUGH' and 'SILENCE THE VIOLENCE'. They sang "Hey,ho,ho,gun violence has got to go" also chanting "Enough is enough" repeatedly. Some kids in Washington DC protested outside of the White House.

The walkout occurred one month after the Majory Stonehem Douglas High School Massacre in Parkland, Florida, when a teenager shot and killed 17 people. It started 10:00 in the Eastern US and moved west across America's time zones, students would march or do whatever they felt they needed to do for 17 minutes, and would then return to lessons and complete the school day. The walkout lasted 17 minutes, one minute for each of Parkland's victims. It was known as the worst and deadliest high school shooting in the country's history since 2012. Videos were posted all over social media showing the injured being carried out. One person said from the BBC "When police arrived they rushed in asking who was injured and taking them to hospital and they told us to follow them and run as fast as possible out of the doors." In total 14 students were injured along with 3 members of staff.

People took the 17 minutes that they had to march down the streets of Brooklyn, knelt in the corridors of a school in Georgia and stood silently in a line in Virginia. However, many students stated that prayers and wishes ‘just aren’t enough’ and that proper action needed to be taken.

The survivors of this shooting joined in with the #NationalSchoolWalkout and there is another one to be scheduled commemorating the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School Massacre that occurred on 20th April 1999.

All these students were part of a nationwide movement everyone being remembered in a different way doing whatever they could to take action and stop gun violence.