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NATIONAL SCHOOL WALKOUT LIVE: Students rally in solidarity to end gun violence
Thousands of students streamed out of schools across the country this morning to protest against gun violence in the wake of last month's mass shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.
"I'm just mad there's no action by our government representatives," Daniel Rogov, a junior in Brooklyn, New York, said today.
"It's all thoughts and prayers; it's all talk," he told ABC News. "After a gun violence tragedy there's a speech talking about how we need change but there never is change."
The event, which began at 10 a.m. across every time zone, was officially scheduled to last 17 minutes -- one minute for each of the victims gunned down in the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But many students are rallying for much longer.
Kevin Butler told ABC News he came to the White House to "make sure there are stricter gun laws," and even though the president wasn't there during the sit-in, Kevin thinks their voices will be heard.
Outside Trump International Hotel in Manhattan, students chanted "Hey, hey, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?"
Blocks away in Times Square, it was eerily quiet as students protested silently.
Students rally in solidarity to end gun violence
Thousands of students streamed out of schools across the country this morning to protest against gun violence in the wake of last month's mass shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.
"I'm just mad there's no action by our government representatives," Daniel Rogov, a junior in Brooklyn, New York, said today.
"It's all thoughts and prayers; it's all talk," he told ABC News. "After a gun violence tragedy there's a speech talking about how we need change but there never is change."
The event, which began at 10 a.m. across every time zone, was officially scheduled to last 17 minutes -- one minute for each of the victims gunned down in the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But many students are rallying for much longer.
Kevin Butler told ABC News he came to the White House to "make sure there are stricter gun laws," and even though the president wasn't there during the sit-in, Kevin thinks their voices will be heard.
Outside Trump International Hotel in Manhattan, students chanted "Hey, hey, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?"
Blocks away in Times Square, it was eerily quiet as students protested silently.
Students rally in solidarity to end gun violence
