response was different students about high school launched a movement called bart for our lives with the aim of tightening america's gun laws . valentine's day two thousand and eighteen students at marjorie's stoneman douglas high school run for their lives after a gunman opened fire in the school hallways killing fourteen students and three staff. who. are. in years old. grief lost friends and siblings quickly turned into activism. only six weeks after the part time massacre more than a million young people took to the streets across the u.s. in one of the biggest youth led protests since the vietnam war. the main event in washington d.c. alone drew a crowd of eight hundred thousand pop and students where the driving force behind