Mooresville Students Plan Walkout In Call For Stricter Gun Laws

MOORESVILLE, NC — Students from Mooresville Senior High School are planning to join a national movement and partake in a walkout in March to protest recent gun violence in schools and call for stricter laws. The March 14 walkout, set to coordinate with the National School Walkout day, is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., according to an event posting on the main campaign website.

Just to the south of Iredell County, numerous schools in Mecklenburg County and across the region are participating the walkout, which is being done to call for stricter laws, according to organizers.

The walkout events are planned across the country after 17 students, teachers, and coaches were killed and numerous people injured in the Valentine's Day massacre. Students participating in the National Walkout will leave their classrooms for 17 minutes – one minute for each life taken at the school on Feb. 14, according to organizers.

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"We need action. Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship," according to the nationwide event page.

Other Charlotte area schools planning walkouts include Whitewater Middle School, Community House Middle School, Ardrey Kell High School, and more. You can find a full list of schools participating in the walkout by clicking here.

Patch Editor Kara Seymour contributed.

Photo Credit: POMPANO BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 25: Activists protest in front of Kalashnikov USA, a gun manufacturer that makes an AK-47 rifle, on February 25, 2018 in Pompano Beach, Florida. The protesters are rallying for gun reform in light of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14. Police arrested 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz for killing 17 people with an AR-15 rifle. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)