Kids rarin’ for school gun protest
THE KIDS are taking their anti-gun message to the streets again.
City students will participate Friday in National School Walkout as part of a nationwide protest against gun violence led by young people.
The event coincides with the 19th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, where two deranged teens opened fire in 1999, killing 12 people.
Student organizers with the local activist group NYC Says Enough said about 5,000 students from 40 public and private high schools will participate in the protest that kicks off at noon in Washington Square Park.
Speakers are scheduled to address the assembly, including two survivors of the Feb. 14 Parkland, Fla., school shooting and a current senior from Columbine High School.
NYC Says Enough organizer Drew Myers said the rally’s purpose is to pressure lawmakers to enact gun control reform.
“It’s important to let Congress know we still care about the issue,” said Myers, 18, who’s a senior at Brooklyn’s Collegiate High School.
But turnout is expected to be a just a fraction of the massive March 24 school walkouts that were held in reaction to the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 people were killed. Packer NEW YORK Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sat down with students from Manhattan’s Bard High School Early College to talk gun control. Schneiderman is publishing a video of the talk online Friday to mark the 19th anniversary of the Columbine massacre in Colorado. It was filmed on March 14, when 100,000 city students walked out of class to honor students slain a month earlier at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. “Kids hurt for other kids. This kind of transcends, at this point, state borders, and red states, blue states,” Bard student Minna Bachman says in the video.