AP Photos: Students across US walk out over gun violence

Students from Westglades Middle School walk out of their school as part of a nationwide protest against gun violence, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. Students across the country participate in walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence, one month after the deadly shooting inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Students gather on their soccer field during a 17-minute walkout protest at the Stivers School for the Arts, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Dayton, Ohio. Students across the country participated in walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence, one month after the deadly shooting inside a high school in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

A sign commemorating the 1999 Columbine High School shooting is collected with other commemorative signs as students at Wissahickon High School return to class after participating in a walkout Wednesday March 14, 2018 in Ambler, Pa. Students across the United States walked out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Students from Miami County Day School walk out of their school to protest gun violence in Miami Shores, Fla., Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Students from all over the country rallied to continue to put pressure on state and federal lawmakers to enact gun control and school safety legislation. The day marks one month since a gunman killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Yarmouth High School student Sage Watterson reads a poem she wrote titled “Never Again,” during a walkout to protest gun violence, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Yarmouth, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

An administrator at James Ferris High School walks with 17 balloons prior to a student walkout to demand action on gun violence, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Jersey City, N.J. The 17 balloons represent each of the students who lost their life during a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in February. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Students across the country and the globe walked out of school Wednesday to demand action on gun violence and to honor the 17 people killed in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida. From campuses battling snowstorms to schools that have seen their own fatal shootings, students left their classrooms for 17 minutes — one each for the dead in Florida. In all, more than 3,000 walkouts were planned, organizers said.

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