Florida School Shooting: Protesting Students Lay In Front Of The White House
Students engaged in a lie-in protest outside the White House over gun laws just days after 17 people were killed in the Florida high school shooting massacre. Groups of students from Washington DC staged the protest on Monday on a road leading to the White House.
They took turns lying on the road for three minutes – the same amount of time 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz went on a firing spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week.
Other students stood by holding signs that read ‘Am I next?’ and ‘Is Congress or the NRA making our laws?’
It was organized by Teens For Gun Reform – a group created by local students following the deadly Florida shooting last week.
Protesters started the protest at about 12.30pm on President’s Day.
Their lie-in protest comes as students staged walkouts, sit-ins and other protests on school campuses across the country in a bid to push lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws.
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