Students from dozens of schools across Minnesota staged a walkout on Friday, protesting continued inaction on guns in the wake of last week’s mass shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis.
Two children were killed and 18 were injured, along with three adults, when Robin Westman opened fire outside the church through the windows, striking students as they observed Mass.
On Friday, hundreds of students in the Twin Cities left class early and embarked on protest marches, some of them holding signs calling for meaningful gun reforms that can prevent future school shootings.
Youth activist group Students Demand Action says more than 250 protests were staged nationwide on Friday in solidarity with the Annunciation victims, with Minnesota volunteer Timberlyn Mazeikis saying: “We shouldn’t have to stage national protests just to be heard, but that’s exactly what we did – more than 250 times over –across the country today,”…