The Vote for Our Lives event in the Denver suburb of Littleton, home to Columbine High School, where 13 people were gunned down in 1999, will feature survivors of shootings -including the Feb. 14 massacre in Parkland, Florida - and other speakers, organizers say. “It happened like 20 years ago,” said Ayanna Rhodes, 14, a student at Washington International School, referring to Columbine, “And we are still getting mass shootings in schools.”

Two gunman went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, leaving 12 students and a teacher dead before killing themselves in a massacre that stunned the nation. Students from Florida to Chicago started streaming out of their schools Friday in the latest round of gun-control activism following the February shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The latest national rally will come more than a month after tens of thousands of U.S. students from more than 3,000 schools participated in the #ENOUGH National School Walkout to demand that policy makers seek tighter gun control regulations. Students at Cooper City High School walked out of class on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine massacre to form a heart on their football field for #NationalSchoolWalkout pic.twitter.com/GgnBVoDjXE — WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) April 20, 2018

“Keeping up the momentum is important,” Connecticut sophomore Lane Murdock, the student who conceived Friday’s walkout, told USA Today.
On the anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, thousands of students across the United States walk out of school to protest against school shootings.