What people are saying on social media about the walkouts
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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Students left classrooms in droves Wednesday as part of a national school walkout to commemorate the Feb. 14 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that claimed 17 lives.
At 10 a.m. local time, students across the country took part in a walkout in remembrance of the 17 people killed in a shooting at a high school in Florida one month ago. The walkout was intended to last 17 minutes, one minute for each victim.
Students around Snohomish County are not far removed from the effect of gun violence: a shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School claiming four lives, including the shooter, in 2014; a house shooting in Mukilteo claiming three lives of Kamiak High School alums in 2016; and persistent gang violence throughout the county.
Junior Grace Moberly read the names of the seventeen lives lost during the Parkland Shooting during the AHS student walkout #walkoutsnoco #nationalschoolwalkout pic.twitter.com/L7JFSwBsZ3
— The AHS Eagle (@TheAHSEagle) March 14, 2018
Today was a big day for us highschoolers. #NationalWalkoutDay We stood in protest of OUR safety and to urge congress to sit down and listen. Please fight for what you believe in, everyone of us matters . #GunReform #17minutesfor17lives pic.twitter.com/JwAJyEj4Zw
— Justin ?? (@JustinDuude) March 14, 2018
Proud to be with my school on this day❤ #nationalwalkoutday #walkoutsnoco pic.twitter.com/NLRbhpYxX2
— Cheyenne Jeneé Coe (@cheycoe99) March 14, 2018
Protest under way at Scriber Lake High School in Edmonds. #walkoutsnoco #nationalwalkoutday #WalkoutWednesday pic.twitter.com/sxk9rbEXC4
— Rikki King (@rikkiking) March 14, 2018
I can’t believe I just did the walkout✊? #NationalSchoolWalkout #NationalWalkoutDay
— ayeesha_13? (@ayeesha_13) March 14, 2018
Sophomore Madison Speach: “People value guns over children’s lives.” #walkoutsnoco #nationalwalkoutday #WalkoutWednesday pic.twitter.com/O4MvTQX8aa
— Rikki King (@rikkiking) March 14, 2018
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH #WalkoutWednesday #NationalWalkoutDay #kamiakhighschool pic.twitter.com/eezhlMW6EZ
— ?????? (@workinprgress) March 14, 2018
Senior Tyler Blanchard, about shootings: “This is something we know in our hearts is wrong.”#walkoutsnoco #nationalwalkoutday #WalkoutWednesday pic.twitter.com/bh02Ki5jpR
— Rikki King (@rikkiking) March 14, 2018
#NationalWalkoutDay #NationalSchoolWalkout
“Today is about love and unity,” Wyatt Watkins (12). pic.twitter.com/Ji0XU3iuJz— Snohomish Yearbook (@SHS_YRBK) March 14, 2018
A neighbor with a flag said she came out to support the kids. She said it looked like 80 percent of the student body walked out #WalkoutSnoCo pic.twitter.com/asEIHw0vu7
— Andrea Brown (@reporterbrown) March 14, 2018
Reading the names of those lost in #Parkland. #walkoutSnoCo pic.twitter.com/6nEW5UK1Ri
— Kari Bray (@KariBray) March 14, 2018
Ruthann Fernandes, a 19-year-old student at EvCC with her sign she made for the student walkout. #willwebenext pic.twitter.com/R1zAsbRkhq
— The Everett Clipper (@EverettClipper) March 14, 2018
“Don’t be afraid to talk about the untouchable subjects.” GFHS senior and walkout speaker Kerri Ray. #walkoutsnoco pic.twitter.com/KDDZhQT7aV
— Kari Bray (@KariBray) March 14, 2018
Getting back to Scriber Lake High School campus now.#walkoutsnoco #nationalwalkoutday #WalkoutWednesday pic.twitter.com/WAM4Od2vXN
— Rikki King (@rikkiking) March 14, 2018
Senior Clemente Jackson says people are scared to go to school after Florida shootings. “There will only be copycats after that, if nothing is done.”#walkoutsnoco #nationalwalkoutday #WalkoutWednesday pic.twitter.com/1hhpGoxH5u
— Rikki King (@rikkiking) March 14, 2018
MPD watching over approximately 550 students @ Monroe High School, very orderly gathering. pic.twitter.com/hoxYeMfjH0
— Monroe PD (@MonroePolice) March 14, 2018
A couple of weeks prior to the March 14 school day event, Marysville students had organized demonstrations calling for improved mental health care funding and increased gun regulation.
Reflecting on #walkoutwednesday, a story of students organizing their own rally and march earlier this month in Marysville, #MarchForOurLives #NationalWalkoutDay https://t.co/96S3AxxIbQ
— The Herald (@EverettHerald) March 14, 2018
Students took up the mantle to organize the walkouts at their schools.
The very idea of students taking part in the walkout proved to be a divisive issue.
Is the #NationalWalkoutDay about the @browardsheriff and #FBI doing their job and having some accountability or is it about promoting a certain political narrative and infringing on #ConstitutionalRights?
— #Swervin?? (@swervinerv82) March 14, 2018
Other people, however, were more supportive.
I hope my child walks out of school with his classmates today. @theclearwaterschool he is 7.#NationalWalkoutDay
— Liz Vogeli (@lizzyloo32) March 14, 2018
I remember another industry people said was too powerful to overcome. That they had too much control over politicians. You’d just had to accept things that killed people. The Cigarette Industry. They were wrong. You can take on the NRA and win. #NationalWalkoutDay
— SnohoMo (@SnohoMo) March 14, 2018
I am so proud of students across the 21st District and all over the country exercising their most basic freedom to peaceably assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances. #NationalWalkoutDay #WalkoutWednesday #waleg
— Sen. Marko Liias (@SenMarkoLiias) March 14, 2018
#NationalWalkoutDay pic.twitter.com/D7hP5gncBB
— Lopez-Shaws (@2midsalovestory) March 14, 2018
Proud my son goes to a school that will honor this day. Extra happy with how our principle has decided to go about it for these youngsters. #nationalwalkoutday #enough #riverviewelementary #snohomish #snoco https://t.co/thDdGfvkdS pic.twitter.com/GOmiZ8m8CH
— Lorry Green (@LorryGreen) March 14, 2018
.@MayorCassie stands with the students and communities partaking in #NationalWalkoutDay this morning in calling for action on gun safety here, and across the country. See the mayor’s full statement below: pic.twitter.com/j02cbDS0G1
— City of Everett (@EverettCity) March 14, 2018
Today in every corner of our country and across our state of Washington, countless students are taking part in a walkout in common support of reforms to combat gun violence. Watch my message of support from the Senate floor: #NationalWalkoutDayhttps://t.co/oTlvWxzbOg
— Sen. Maria Cantwell (@SenatorCantwell) March 14, 2018
Elsewhere, students converged on the capitol in Washington, D.C. There, they expressed their desire to see federal legislation to further regulate guns and firearms.
My parents “never had to worry about someone barging into their classroom with an assault rifle and slaughtering everyone in their class. That is an American tragedy,” Maryland student says https://t.co/B9gqfHUvRF #NationalWalkoutDay pic.twitter.com/szJ0lmHujO
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 14, 2018
