Protesting violence
Local high school students hit the streets of Chico in wake of Parkland, Fla., shooting
Hundreds of students took to the streets last Wednesday (March 14) to protest gun violence in the wake of the recent shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 people, mostly students, dead. Each year, 1,300 children ages 17 and younger die from firearm-related injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, 53 percent are homicides, 38 percent are suicides and 6 percent are unintentional. (The remaining 3 percent was due to “legal intervention and deaths of undetermined intent.”)
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