US: MASS STUDENT PROTEST AGAINST GUN CONTROL LAW

Students gather on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue ahead of the march

Students took to streets in mass protests across the country calling for strict gun control laws.

Hundreds of thousands came out in Washington DC in the March For Our Lives protests on Saturday and about 800 protests nationwide with solidarity marches across the world in London, Edinburgh, Geneva, Sydney and Tokyo.

Protesters chanted “enough is enough!” as they seized the public outrage of the 14 February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland to press government for tighter gun control and banning the sale of assault weapons.

The Parkland students and others emerged as leaders of the nation wide movement.

Alex Wind, 17, a junior at Stoneman Douglas, spoke about the need for legislative change.

“To all the politicians out there, if you take money from the N.R.A., you have chosen death,” he said. “If you have not expressed to your constituents a public stance on this issue, you have chosen death. If you do not stand with us by saying we need to pass common sense gun legislation, you have chosen death. And none of the millions of people marching in this country today will stop until they see those against us out of office, because we choose life.”