kids did you kill today? i am marching for gun control and for congress to step it up to protect our teenagers and our kids. we won t tolerate being scared to come to school or having to stay out of school because we re scared. it has to change. we can t be hunted. we re the victims. we re the ones that are going to die if this continues. i m an 11th grader. i stand here today to tell you that you can be the change. what s going on in schools is not okay. there needs to be change. i shouldn t be afraid to walk into school. my peers shouldn t be afraid to walk into school. and little kids shouldn t be afraid either. school should be a safe place rather than a war zone. what do we want? gun reform! when do we want it? now! this is what it looks and sounds like when a new generation steps in to take charge. the students aren t finished. the next rally is the big one, march 24th in washington. they re expecting half a million
all of these students here are calling for gun control nationwide. let s see if i can grab some of these guys, come on in. jacob from msnbc, nice to meet you. what s your name? matthew. reporter: where are you out here? i m trying to stop gun violence. it s as simple as that. reporter: what s your name? allister. reporter: why did you decide to come out today? the cycle of violence needs to stop, it can t continue. reporter: have you ever done anything like this before? i actually protest a lot. i m a social advocate for civil rights, women s rights, all that good stuff. what s going on in schools is not okay. there needs to be change. i shouldn t be afraid to walk into school. my peers shouldn t be afraid to walk into school. little kids shouldn t be afraid either. school should be a safe place rather than a war zone. reporter: talking about the president of the united states, he s spent the last couple of days in the southern california area. if he hasn t left yet
but our good outweighs the bad. i keep going just for that reason. you know, before i was a little hard on myself, and i used to actually think that i could save all the kids. i know that s not the case. you know, i just do the best that i can do. and i just pray that the next kid doesn t fall by the wayside. how do you not become cynical? do you harden your heart? no, actually i have to replenish myself or i m not going to be any good to them or my own family. these kids are precious cargo to me. they have pretty tough lives. some of them have the responsibility of a 30-something-year-old. they re holding down their homes. and they re only kids. little kids shouldn t have to go through that. 25 years down the road, what do you think camden is going to be like? i m praying that it turns into the camden that i remember, and i know that i m helping our
can t all i have to say is gun violence needs to stop. what is going on in schools is not okay. there needs to be change. i shouldn t be afraid to walk into school. my piers shouldn my peers shouldn t be afraid to walk into school and little kids shouldn t be either. school should be a safe place rather than a war zone. and next week on march 24th survivors from marjory stoneman douglas, some barely teenagers will spearhead another massive rally in washington, d.c. called march for our lives. they ll have the support of sther marches from cities east to west. our reporters are on the ground covering aum of the action across the country. let s start in our nation s capitol where marianna has been talking to students throughout the course of the day. reporter: it was such a solemn and energetic day here on the nation s capitol. it started out with the 17-minute moment of silence in front of the white house. you had organizers expecting