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    Students nationwide stage walkouts for stricter gun laws after deadly Florida shooting

    by Jenny Jarvie and Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times Mar 14, 2018 4 minutes

    PARKLAND, Fla. - Students across the country - from middle school to college - walked out of class Wednesday, calling on state and federal legislators to enact stricter gun laws one month after the mass shooting at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

    Seventeen students and staff members were killed at the school in Parkland on Feb. 14. On Wednesday, students at hundreds of schools across the nation left class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes - one minute for each victim.

    At Marjory Stoneman Douglas, two walkouts took place. Citing safety concerns, student government officials and administrators urged

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