'We are demanding a change because we don't want to be living in fear as a fellow middle school student who could walk into school tomorrow and get brutally shot,' said eight-grader Ayana Hasan.
shooting walked out of class Tuesday morning to urge changes in gun laws. While the protest lasted only 10 minutes, the students believe they made a powerful statement.
"We are demanding change," said organizer Ayana Hasan, an eight-grade student at Thomas Hart Middle School. Almost a third of the 1,200 sixth, seventh and eight graders participated in the student-led protest that was sanctioned by school leaders. SKY7 was overhead as they assembled outdoors to hear speeches by the organizers."We are demanding a change because we don't want to be living in fear as a fellow middle school student who could walk into school tomorrow and get brutally shot," said Ayana Hasan."I don't want that, and I'm sure neither do you.
Ever since the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, these Pleasanton students have been dealing with a wide spectrum of emotion, including fear, anger and sadness. Ayana said some of her classmates were jaded because so many school shootings have occurred. However, she was determined to share with them a vision that gun law change could make a difference.
"This was difficult, but I'm glad and I used that anger and sadness that I had in me to kind of ignite a flame that I used to drive me to do this," she said. Her uncle, she said, had survived an active shooter incident in Los Angeles several years ago.
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