Students nationwide walk out of class to demand stricter gun laws

Students at Hamilton High listen to speakers during their walkout in support of Parkland shooting victims on National Walkout Day in Los Angeles.

Students at Los Angeles Center For Enriched Studies shout slogans during walkout in support of Parkland shooting victims on National Walkout Day in Los Angeles.

17 chairs stand as a memorial to the victims in the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings during a national walkout in support of gun control and safe schools in Venice. An orange carnation was left on each desk in memory of the fallen.

Ingrid Lopez rallies her fellow students as they chant, “No More Guns,” during the National School Walkout for Gun Control, at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in Los Angeles.

Students rally inside the school compound for the National School Walkout for Gun Control, at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in Los Angeles.

Venice High School students participate in a nationwide walkout declaring a day of action to raise awareness about the effects of gun violence and push for lawmakers to take action to reduce it in Venice.

World Arts and Culture students at UCLA observe 17 minutes of silence in front of Kaufman Hall on the UCLA campus Wednesday morning.

World Arts and Culture students at UCLA observe 17 minutes of silence in front of Kaufman Hall on the UCLA campus Wednesday morning.

Thousands of students march down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the U.S. Capitol during a nationwide student walkout protesting gun violence.

Students walk out of class at Druid Hills High School in Atlanta.

Pat Gibson holds a drawing of Meadow Pollack, a victim of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, outside the school in Parkland, Fla., where she and others gathered in support of students walking out of class to protest gun violence.

Students walk out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., to protest gun violence a month after a gunman killed 17 people on their campus.

Students and their supporters join Wednesday’s walkout at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Middle Township High School senior Sophie Ellis, left, and assistant principal Nancy Loteck listen as the names of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting victims are readaloud during a walkout to protest gun violence in Cape May Court House, N.J.

Students from Harvest Collegiate High School form a circle around the fountain in Washington Square Park in New York as part of a national walkout to protest gun violence.

Students from area schools join in the walkout protesting gun violence in Brooklyn, New York.

Students at Eastern High School in Washington, D.C., assemble on their football field after walking out of class to protest gun violence.

Diamond Bryant, center, a freshman at James Ferris High School, joins classmates who walked out of class in Jersey City, N.J.

Students walk out of class at Cherry Hill West High School in Cherry Hill, N.J..

Students participating in a national school walkout over gun violence turn their backs on the White House at a rally on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.

Students at the Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton, Ohio, join hands on their soccer field during a walkout to protest gun violence.

Students at the Philadelphia High School of Creative and Performing Arts, including one holding a sign reading “No guns in schools” in Spanish, participate in a walkout to protest gun violence.

Students at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., join a national walkout to protest gun violence, one month after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

Students gather at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan during a walkout to protest gun violence.