Dozens of high school and middle school students walked out of schools to protest gun violence Wednesday after 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed last week at a school in Uvalde, Texas. FOX13
"These sort of walkouts are the only type of thing that makes voices heard," Club President Alayna Winstead-Coby said.RELATED:Hannah Martin read an open letter to officials:
"If there’s a shooter, hide in the corner, jump out those windows, don’t be the hero, save yourself," she read. "Because if we won’t, who will? You surely won’t. Instead, you stand outside an elementary school for an hour because it’s not safe, but still, you expect us to feel safe when you, a trained professional, refused to go in yourself," she continued.
Organizers also read the names of the students and teachers killed in the Uvalde shooting before taking a moment of silence.
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