PORTAGE, Mich. — Students at Portage Northern High School participated in national coordinated school walkouts to demand that lawmakers take action to prevent gun violence.
About 70 high schoolers walked out at 10 a.m. on Friday in an organized effort, aiming to raise awareness for the issue of gun violence and mass school shootings.
Some participants carried signs that read “No More Silence, End Gun Violence,” “Protect Kids, Not Guns,” and “Am I Next?”
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“I feel passionate about this, because I see people my age dying from this,” Portage Northern sophomore, Madeline Duhn, said…