By Abby Painovich
One month ago Wednesday 14th, 2018, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School experienced a tragedy; one they would never forget. In honor of those students and many other students that have been victim to a similar event, there was a nationally organized walkout. The purpose of this peaceful protest was to rebut the thought that students should go to school everyday and worry about protecting their lives. We walked so that students would never have run from guns again. This was one of the largest student protests in all of U.S. history with over 150,000 students pledging to walk. Our school, Hinckley Finlayson High School, was one of the many schools that participated in this event. Allowing for the students to leave class and protest on school grounds for seventeen minutes; one minute for each life that was lost in the Florida school shooting. When we asked students why they were walking for these seventeen minutes they responded with, “for the seventeen kids who died in the [Florida] shooting,” or “to support the gun control movement to prevent events like the Parkland school shooting from happening again.” It is clear that the issue at hand is one that has been heard around the nation and is long overdue. As a result of this movement and others, Florida has recently signed a bill that raised the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21 and has extended the waiting period to three days. Although the protests have not received attention on a national level, at least stories of students striving to make a difference have plagued the internet for a little while. Our thoughts and prayers go out those who have been affected by gun violence.
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