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Kalamazoo school walk out shows students still hope for gun control

High school students in Kalamazoo say they’re confident they can change gun laws despite previous inaction.

The students joined their peers around the country who marked the one-month anniversary of a deadly school shooting in Florida. In February, students at Loy Norrix High School walked off school grounds to call for tighter gun laws.

The district took more control of Wednesday’s event. It featured students who gathered on a sports field, read the names of those who died in the Florida shooting and then observed a moment of silence. Fifteen-year-old Michaela Martin expressed confidence that adults would enact stricter gun laws.

If your kids are saying that this is not safe for us and we need protection, then you’re going to hop on board too, so with all of us standing up for what we need our parents will too.

But Martin also indicated that she plans to vote. She’ll turn 18 the month before the next presidential election.