Hunter
12/02/22
About 100 Iowa City middle-and high-school students staged a walkout Thursday to protest gun violence.
The Daily Iowan reports about 100 students and community members started marching from the junior high at 10:30 a.m. and walked to Iowa City City High School before ending at the UI Pentacrest. They then passed around a megaphone and gave speeches calling for change to gun violence.
Many students talked about the anxiety they suffer as they worry whether their school will be the next one to have a shooting, and having to plan an exit strategy in the event of an active shooter.
The students demanded stricter gun laws, background and mental health checks before purchasing firearms, and metal detectors in schools.