SoCal students walk out of school to protest gun violence after Texas massacre

From Saugus to South Los Angeles, highschool college students walked out of sophistication on Thursday to protest gun violence and help stricter gun management.

Following the bloodbath at Robb Elementary within the city of Uvalde on Tuesday, Saugus Excessive College college students say the assault prompts recollections of Nov. 14, 2019, when a 16-year-old opened hearth on their campus, killing two college students and injuring three extra.

Mia Tretta, now a junior, was shot within the stomach in the course of the assault.

“It’s so unhappy we will’t be secure at college … We’re the one nation with this drawback that we will cease — it’s the legislators who must take motion,” she mentioned.

Some opposition was reported, with one Saugus pupil telling KTLA that issues have been hurled on the demonstrators by those that disagreed.

Tretta mentioned she’s grateful for many who did help them, because it’s her mission to maintain alive the reminiscence of these misplaced in 2019.

“My finest good friend’s identify was Dominic Blackwell’ and it’s unlucky we’ve had so many faculty shootings that no person is aware of his identify,” she mentioned. “He’s grow to be a statistic and I would like to inform those who this isn’t OK.”