Nashville Students Protest Gun Violence

Apr 4, 2023, 1:08 PM

(From Chalkbeat) One week after six people were killed in a mass shooting at The Covenant School, more than a thousand Nashville-area students walked out of their schools Monday and converged outside the Tennessee State Capitol to demand stronger gun laws. The student protest was mobilized through March for Our Lives, a youth-led movement for stricter gun laws that was formed after the 2018 in Parkland, Florida. Easy access to military-style guns was the No. 1 concern identified by students.

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