A week after 17 people were murdered in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, teenagers across South Florida, in areas near Washington, D.C., and in other parts of the United States walked out of their classrooms to stage protests against the horror of school shootings and to advocate for gun law reforms. Student survivors of the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School traveled to their state Capitol to attend a rally, meet with legislators, and urge them to do anything they can to make their lives safer. These teenagers are speaking clearly for themselves on social media, speaking loudly to the media, and they are speaking straight to those in power—challenging lawmakers to end the bloodshed with their “#NeverAgain” movement.
Photos: Teenagers Demand 'Never Again' in an Age of Mass Shootings
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Protesters rally against gun violence on the steps of the old Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 21, 2018. Students at schools across Broward and Miami-Dade counties in South Florida planned short walkouts Wednesday, the one-week anniversary of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. #
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People mourn next to crosses placed in a park to commemorate the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 16, 2018. #
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Delaney Tarr speaks at a rally for gun control at the Broward County Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 17, 2018. #
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Dylan Baierlein, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, speaks to protesters at a Call To Action Against Gun Violence rally by the Interfaith League and others in Delray Beach, Florida, on February 19, 2018. #
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Emma Gonzalez hugs her father Jose after speaking at a rally for gun control at the Broward County Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 17, 2018. #
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Some of the hundreds of West Boca High School students arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after they walked there in honor of the 17 students shot dead last week, on February 20, 2018, in Parkland, Florida. #
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Some of the hundreds of West Boca High School students arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after they walked there in honor of the 17 students shot dead last week, on February 20, 2018, in Parkland, Florida. #
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High school students observe a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during a demonstration calling for safer gun laws outside the North Carolina State Capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina, on February 20, 2018. #
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A high school student places a candle representing one of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School outside the North Carolina State Capitol building during a demonstration calling for safer gun laws in Raleigh, North Carolina, on February 20, 2018. #
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Students from Montgomery Blair High School march down Colesville Road in support of gun-reform legislation in Silver Spring, Maryland, on February 21, 2018. In the wake of last week's shooting in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed, the students planned to take public transportation to the U.S. Capitol to hold a rally demanding legislation to curb gun violence in schools. #
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School students from Montgomery County, Maryland, in suburban Washington, rally in solidarity with those affected by the shooting at Parkland High School in Florida, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on February 21, 2018. #
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Lyndon Parrot, 17, of Silver Spring, Maryland, takes part in a moment of silence during a student protest for gun-control legislation in front of the White House, on February 21, 2018, in Washington, D.C. #
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Students from Stoneman Douglas High School hug survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting before boarding buses in Parkland, Florida, on February 20, 2018. The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican-controlled legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws. #
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Tyra Hemans, 19, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, speaks before boarding buses with other students to travel to Tallahassee, Florida, to meet with legislators, in Coral Springs, Florida, on February 20, 2018. #
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Tyra Hemans, 19, left, and Tanzil Philip, 16, student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, converse aboard their bus between Parkland, Florida, and Tallahassee, Florida, on February 20, 2018, to rally outside the state capitol and talk to legislators about gun-control reform. #
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Demitri Hoth, right, asks for feedback from Bailey Feuerman on an open letter he is writing to legislators as they and fellow student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ride aboard a bus to Tallahassee on February 20, 2018. #
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Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High are welcomed as they arrive at Leon High School prior to their meetings the next day with Florida state legislators following last week's mass shooting on their campus in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 20, 2018. #
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School survivor Tanzil Philip, left, is comforted by fellow student Diego Pfeiffer as Philip speaks to Leon High School students after arriving in Tallahassee on February 20, 2018. #
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Students and their chaperones from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, wearing blue t-shirts, stand in the gallery above the Florida Senate as the Senate holds a moment of silence to honor the victims of last week's mass shooting on the school's campus, in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 21, 2018. #
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Florida Senator Debbie Mayfield, center, listens as student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High tell their personal experiences in her office at the Florida Capitol on February 21, 2018. #
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Student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High walk past the house legislative committee room to talk to legislators at the state Capitol regarding gun-control legislation, in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 21, 2018. #
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Students and parents from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, advocating for a change in gun-control laws, listen during a meeting with Senator Bobby Powell following last week's mass shooting on their campus, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, on February 20, 2018. #
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17 student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High lie down on the floor in silence and pray at the approximate time of the attack one week ago, inside the state Capitol, in Tallahassee, on February 21, 2018. The students, members of the Congregation Kol Tikvah Temple, lost three students, and were at the capitol to pressure lawmakers on gun-control reform. #
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Students from South Plantation High School, carrying placards and shouting slogans, walk on the street during a protest in support of gun control following a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Plantation, Florida, on February 21, 2018. #
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Students from South Plantation High School, carrying placards and shouting slogans, walk on the street during a protest in support of gun control in Plantation, Florida, on February 21, 2018. #
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17-year-old Gwendolyn Frantz of Kensington, Maryland, stands in front of the White House during a student protest for gun control on February 21, 2018, in Washington, D.C. #
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