Washington students walk out in protest of gun violence

Dozens of highschool and center faculty college students in Olympia, Washington, walked out of faculties to protest gun violence Wednesday after 19 kids and two lecturers have been shot and killed final week at a college in Uvalde, Texas.

The walkout was organized by members of the Olympia Excessive College Feminism Membership, The Olympian reported.

“These form of walkouts are the one sort of factor that makes voices heard,” Membership President Alayna Winstead-Coby mentioned.

The Washington State Patrol estimated about 100 college students gathered for the rally on the steps of the state Capitol.

Hannah Martin learn an open letter to officers.

“If there’s a shooter, disguise within the nook, leap out these home windows, don’t be the hero, save your self,” she learn. “As a result of if we gained’t, who will? You certainly gained’t. As a substitute, you stand exterior an elementary faculty for an hour as a result of it’s not secure, however nonetheless, you count on us to really feel secure while you, a educated skilled, refused to go in your self,” she continued.

Organizers additionally learn the names of the scholars and lecturers killed within the Uvalde taking pictures earlier than taking a second of silence.

College students in Seattle and Tacoma have additionally been staging walkouts in help of measures to cut back gun violence.