In Pictures: US students stage school walkout to protest gun violence

Thousands of students spilled out of classrooms in states across the US on Wednesday (March 14), as part of a protest over gun violence prompted by last month's shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17. The #ENOUGH National School Walkout was intended to pressure federal and state lawmakers to tighten laws on gun ownership.

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Mar 15, 2018, 10:06 AM

Leah Zundel holds a sign as she and other students from Columbine High participate in a walkout to honor victims of gun violence, part of a nationwide day of protests, in Littleton, Colorado on March 14, 2018. Students here planned 30 seconds of silence: 17 for the dead in Parkland and 13 for the dead on their own campus in the 1999 shooting that seemed to signify the beginning of a generation of school attacks. PHOTO: NYTIMES

Students from Washington, DC-area schools protest for stricter gun control during a walkout by students at the US Capitol in Washington on March 14, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Students from Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC, hold up signs with the names of those killed in the Florida school shooting during a protest for stricter gun control during a walkout by students at the US Capitol in Washington on March 14, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Redondo Union High School students walk out of class and assemble outside their school for the nation-wide protest against gun violence, in Redondo Beach, California on March 14, 2018. Organisers of the 17-minute protest hope to call attention to Congressional inaction on the issue. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Students from Washington, DC-area schools carry signs during a protest for stricter gun control during walk out by students at the US Capitol in Washington on March 14, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Pat Gibson holds a picture of Meadow Pollack and Valerie Davis holds a picture of Joaquin Oliver, students who died at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, during a national school walkout to honour the 17 students and staff members killed at the school. PHOTO: REUTERS

Columbine High School student Andrew Pavicich ties a memorial ribbon on the fence outside the school during the national school walkout to honour the 17 students and staff members killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in Littleton, Colorado. PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman holds up a drawing of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting victim Meadow Pollack during the ENOUGH: National School Walkout rally in Parkland, Florida on March 14, 2018. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

Politicians, law enforcement and survivors of the Florida school shooting last month came together at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as students left classrooms across the country to protest gun violence, the gun industry, and what many of them consider to be America's dangerously lax gun laws. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG

Zechariah Stepney carries a sign honouring the 17 students and staff who died in the Florida school shooting as he and other Perspectives High School of Technology students walked out of class and marched, in Chicago, March 14, 2018. PHOTO: NYTIMES

Community members and students participate of the national school walkout outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on March 14, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

Eastern High School students walk out of class and assemble on their football field for the National School Walkout, a nation-wide protest against gun violence, in Washington, DC on March 14, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

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