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struggle4progress

(118,350 posts) Tue Feb 20, 2018, 12:38 AM Feb 2018

Iowa City students demand gun control

IOWA CITY — More than a hundred Iowa City school students walked out of classes Monday morning to march through fog and rain to call for stricter gun-control measures.

The march began at City High School with high school and junior high school students carrying signs that called for banning AR-15 semi-automatic rifles and chanting phrases such as "not one more" and "safety now" ...

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/iowa-city-students-rally-to-demand-gun-control-20180219

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Iowa City students demand gun control (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2018 OP
Very proud of IA students. Lived there 68 to 89. bobbieinok Feb 2018 #1
I think it's going to be high school students PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #2
My favorite city!! bdjhawk Feb 2018 #3
KICK Cha Feb 2018 #4
Go Iowa students! appalachiablue Feb 2018 #5

PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. I think it's going to be high school students
Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:07 AM
Feb 2018

who will finally make a difference and get real gun control in place.

I'm getting old. I'm 69, and if I die in some stupid mass shooting it will be too bad, but I've had a decent life. Teens? They've barely begun to live. They have vastly more at stake. I am amazed and proud of them.

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bdjhawk

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3. My favorite city!!
Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)
Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:42 AM
Feb 2018

Love that place! Just wish the rest of the state, especially western Iowa (home of Steve King), thought like those in Iowa City. Keep up the good fight, kids in IC and everywhere!!

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