Thousands of students across the US are walking out of their schools to protest gun violence and push for change after the Florida shooting

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• Students across the country are rallying for stricter gun-control measures after a mass shooting in Florida last week killed 17 people.
• Students planned school walkouts and staged protests and rallies in Tallahassee, Florida and Washington, DC.
• Lawmakers are under pressure to act on gun-control measures, and President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he intended to ban "bump stock" devices for semi-automatic firearms.

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Students across the United States walked out of their schools en masse Wednesday in a nationwide protest against gun violence following last week's mass shooting in Florida that killed 17 people.

Dozens of students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland joined hundreds of their peers from across Florida to descend on the state Capitol, enraged that Republican state lawmakers dismissed a bill banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines on Tuesday.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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