Student-led Walkouts Across the US Demand Action on Gun Violence

Students of the Uvalde Independent Consolidated School District in Texas staged a walkout to protest gun violence, inspired by students in Nashville who conducted a massive walkout on Monday related to The Covenant School shooting. Uvalde students gathered on the lawn inside the fences of the school, which were put up after the shooting, and soon started making their way toward the perimeter. Junior high students crawled underneath the locked gates to walk off school grounds and joined a march led by the high school students to the Uvalde town square, the site of the memorial for the 21 victims of last year's shooting.