Students from two Chico high schools and Chico State will participate in the #Enough National School Walkout Wednesday to protest gun violence and to call for congressional action.
The Chico students say they want school campuses to be gun-free zones, they want more background checks at the time of purchases and they want bans on the sale of assault rifles.
“We’re trying to create awareness about gun violence in America and how (gun violence here) compares to other countries,” said Lucinda Law, a 15-year-old Chico High School sophomore who is one of a half-dozen CHS students planning the school’s walkout. “Not much (legislation) has happened since Columbine and Sandy Hook.”
Memorials that last 17 minutes in memory of the 17 students and faculty members shot dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., one month ago, protests over the lack of gun reform, and events that are a mix of both, will be taking place in schools across the nation Wednesday. Empower, the youth branch of the national Women’s March organization, had counted 2,853 planned walkouts at the time this story was posted.