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‘Enough is enough’: US students walk out over gun violence

Declaring enough is enough, tens of thousands of young people from Maine to Alaska walked out of school to demand action on gun violence Wednesday in one of the biggest student protests since the Vietnam era.

Braving snow in New England and threats of school discipline in places like Georgia and Ohio, they carried signs with messages such as “Am I next?,” railed against the National Rifle Association and bowed their heads in memory of the 17 dead in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Over and over, students declared that too many young people have died and that they are tired of going to school every day afraid of getting killed.

This gallery was curated by Courtney Dittmar  in New York.

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