wrote an opinion piece for his school newspaper that called for universal background checks and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Someone egged his house after the article ran and other students quit the newspaper because they disagreed with his stance, he said.

"People wouldn’t talk to me in class,” said Percy, who is helping organize the rally at the state Capitol.

But the disapproval of some of his peers hasn't stopped him from expressing his views.

He points to the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., as inspiration for the Capitol rally.

"We kind of thought, 'Why can't we do that on a local level?'" he said.Advertising Read more

Nairobi (AFP)

At least one assailant stormed into the home of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto on Saturday and injured a policeman, less than two weeks before the country votes in high-stakes polls, the police and security sources said.

Ruto was not present during the attack, the details of which remain unclear. Police say it was carried out by one man armed with a machete, but several security sources told AFP the assault was staged by multiple people using guns.

"There are armed people who staged the attack and have shot the GSU officer and stolen his gun," one security official said, referring to the elite police General Security Unit deployed to guard Ruto's house.

A second source, a senior police officer, said security forces are trying to establish if