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Gainesville, Hall students hold walkouts encouraging solutions to gun violence
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Gainesville High School junior Matthew Penado, in orange coat standing above the crowd, reads the names of the 17 people killed in a school shooting earlier this year in Parkland, Florida, during a 17-minute walkout and moment of silence on Wednesday, March 14. Penado is standing with Jack McFarland, middle in blue, and Bailey Becker, left in yellow. Walkouts were organized throughout the country to commemorate those killed in the shooting and to call for an end to school gun violence. - photo by Nick Bowman
Before a hushed crowd of several hundred Gainesville High School students on Wednesday morning, March 14, junior Matthew Penado read the names of each of the 17 victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month. It was part memorial and part protest as the students joined a nationwide call for school walkouts to pressure Congress to enact legislation to reduce gun violence and improve school safety.