Hunter
06/14/22
Nearly three dozen incoming high school freshmen marched to end gun violence in downtown Iowa City Monday.
The Gazette reports that students marched from College Green Park to the Pentacrest on the University of Iowa campus to protest the recent school shootings in the United States.
14-year-old Zee Lauer told the newspaper that schools should also have an optional active shooter drill and discussions during homeroom periods about gun violence.
Iowa City Council member Janice Weiner and Johnson County supervisor Jon Green joined the teens in the march. He said, “Fourteen-year-olds should have about a million better things to do. They should be able to enjoy their youth, their summer, and not do this.”
The Board of Supervisors are using $300,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds for a gun violence intervention project.