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Mass school walkouts against firearms

PUPILS across the US marked the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre yesterday by staging mass walkouts in protest at gun violence.

The national walkout was organised following the Parkland school shooting in Florida in February, in which 17 people were killed.

Demonstrations were held in every state in the US with students making calls to their senator’s offices demanding reforms to gun laws.

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