Title: Students Plan Walkouts, Gun Violence Rallies After Florida Shooting
Headings: Thousands of students scold lawmakers in Florida and Washington over gun violence ahead of planned national school walkout
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Thousands of students scold lawmakers in Florida and Washington over gun violence ahead of planned national school walkout
Michelle Mark
Students gathered on the steps of the old Florida Capitol in Tallahassee on Wednesday protesting gun violence.
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Content: Students planned walkouts and staged protests and rallies in Tallahassee, Florida, and Washington, DC. Lawmakers are under pressure to act on gun-control measures, and President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he intended to ban "bump stock" devices for semiautomatic firearms. Students in Florida and Maryland walked out of their schools en masse Wednesday to protest gun violence in what could be a preview of nationwide demonstrations planned for next month. Dozens of students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the site of the shooting that left 17 people dead last week, joined hundreds of their peers from across Florida to descend on the state Capitol, enraged that state lawmakers on Tuesday dismissed a bill that would ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. The crowd chanted slogans like "vote them out" and "never again," railing against the Republican-controlled chamber, the Associated Press reported. "We're what's making the change. We're going to talk to these politicians," Alfonso Calderon, one of the shooting survivors, told CBS News, adding: " We're going to keep pushing until something is done, because people are dying and this can't happen anymore." Students at the Florida rally wore "We call B.S." T-shirts, according to The Washington Post. The slogans referred to their peer, Emma Gonzalez, who recently used the phrase in an impassioned speech denouncing lawmakers for inaction on gun control.