WALKOUT SLIDER Students and gun control advocates march to the Capitol Building in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. One month after a mass shooting in Florida, students and advocates across the country participate in walkouts and protests to call on Congress for action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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WALKOUT SLIDER Mandatory Credit: Photo by JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9458894j) Students from area schools participate in the 'ENOUGH National School Walkout' and gather for a student organized rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall to protest gun violence and to call on Congress to enact gun control measures in Brooklyn, New York, USA,14 March 2018. The event is being held one month after a shooting in a high school in Parkland, Florida, USA, where 17 people where killed. National School Walkout in New York, Brooklyn, USA - 14 Mar 2018

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WALKOUT SLIDER Mandatory Credit: Photo by JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9458881h) Eastern High School students walk out of class and assemble on their football field for the National School Walkout, a nation-wide protest against gun violence, in Washington, DC, USA, 14 March 2018. Organizers of the 17-minute protest, one minute for each victim of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that took place on 14 February, hope to call attention to Congressional inaction on the issue. National School Walkout in Washington, DC, USA - 14 Mar 2018

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WALKOUT SLIDER East chapel Hill students hug as they take part in a student walkout on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 in Chapel Hill, N.C. Students across the country planned to participate in walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence, one month after the deadly shooting inside a high school in Parkland, Fla. (Bernard Thomas/The Herald-Sun via AP)

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WALKOUT SLIDER Mandatory Credit: Photo by JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9458894h) Students from area schools participate in the 'ENOUGH National School Walkout' and gather for a student organized rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall to protest gun violence and to call on Congress to enact gun control measures in Brooklyn, New York, USA,14 March 2018. The event is being held one month after a shooting in a high school in Parkland, Florida, USA, where 17 people where killed. National School Walkout in New York, Brooklyn, USA - 14 Mar 2018

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WALKOUT SLIDER Students from Harvest Collegiate High School form a circle around the fountain in Washington Square Park on March 14, 2018 in New York to take part in a national walkout to protest gun violence, one month after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed. Students across the US walked out of classes on March 14, in a nationwide call for action against gun violence following the shooting deaths last month at a Florida high school. The nationwide protest is being held one month to the day after Nikolas Cruz, a troubled 19-year-old former student at Stoneman Douglas, unleashed a hail of gunfire on his former classmates. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARYTIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

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Young people gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House.

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WALKOUT SLIDER Students wear #ENOUGH pins as they gather on their soccer field during a 17-minute walkout protest at the Stivers School for the Arts, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in Dayton, Ohio. Students across the country planned to participate in walkouts Wednesday to protest gun violence, one month after the deadly shooting inside a high school in Parkland, Fla. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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WALKOUT SLIDER Students hold signs at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2018 during a national walkout to protest gun violence, one month after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed. Students across the United States walked out of classes on Wednesday in a nationwide call for action against gun violence following the shooting deaths last month at a Florida high school. Hundreds of students from Washington area schools gathered outside the White House chanting

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Freshman Kennedi Lawson, 14, carried a sign at a student walkout at Cherry Hill West High School in New Jersey. Students were demonstrating in the wake of the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida last month.

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WALKOUT SLIDER PHILADELPHIA, PA - MARCH 14: Students at Philadelphia High School of Creative And Performing Arts participate in a walkout to address school safety and gun violence on March 14, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Students across the country are walking out of classes for 17 minutes to honor the lives of the 17 people killed at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida this past February. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

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