The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. March 15, 2019 Students Walk Out of Schools to Protest Gun Violence ---------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, hundreds of students left classrooms in the Washington, D.C. area and marched on the Capitol to demand new gun control laws. Similar protests played out around the country, marking the one-year anniversary of the March for Our Lives rally against gun violence organized by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland, Florida. .