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Hundreds of students gather on Statehouse steps for protest against gun violence

 (The Spokesman-Review / Betsy Z. Russell)
(The Spokesman-Review / Betsy Z. Russell)

Hundreds of chanting students are gathered on the state Capitol steps, chanting, “Your guns or our lives,” and holding signs with slogans including “Love our kids, not our guns.” It’s part of a student walkout and rally entitled “Enough is Enough,” occurring in concert with similar events across the country in protest of the mass shooting that left 17 Florida high school students dead, and calling for action on guns in the wake of that event.

“We feel that the school shootings across the nation, such as the Florida school shooting, are proof that there must be real action taken by students, parents, teachers, but most importantly, our Congress,” student organizers said in a news release announcing the rally. “We come together as students and as a community to show that parents deserve to feel secure sending their children to school and that we as students deserve to feel safe in our daily learning environment.”



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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