About 100 Sequim High School students take a break from classes to express their views about gun control laws during the National School Walkout on Wednesday. Along with students across the country, SHS students offered up a variety of views on the school campus at 10 a.m. for a 17-minute demonstration — one minute for each of the 17 people killed at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School one month ago. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

About 100 Sequim High School students take a break from classes to express their views about gun control laws during the National School Walkout on Wednesday. Along with students across the country, SHS students offered up a variety of views on the school campus at 10 a.m. for a 17-minute demonstration — one minute for each of the 17 people killed at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School one month ago. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

Sequim students walk out for gun control

SEQUIM — About 100 students gathered outside the front of Sequim High School for 17 minutes to support the National School Walkout scheduled at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.

The students promoted gun control policy, some holding signs while others sported bright orange — a color meant to send a message about gun reform, dating back to the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton who was killed in 2013 in Chicago in a case of mistaken identity.

CNN reported her parents picked the color orange because it is what hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves and others from harm, and chose it to honor the death of their daughter and call for gun reform.

About 10 students opposed those standing in solidarity with gun control reform, and stood across those students in front of the high school.

They held their own signs that read “I stand with the NRA” and “Why Gun Control Does Not Work.”

Trey Brouillard held a sign during the walkout that read “Arm Teachers with Counselors.”

“I’m usually really outspoken about things like this,” Brouillard said.

“It’s not OK for kids that have mental illnesses to get guns and teachers shouldn’t be armed,” he said. “We need more resources and counselors.”

In support of the walkout, more than 20 parishioners with St. Luke’s Episcopal Church walked along North Fifth Avenue with signs at 10 a.m. advocating more gun control.

One parishioner held a sign with more than 70 signatures from church members who couldn’t attend the event.

The church bell also was rung 17 times for each of the victims in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting Feb. 14.

Sequim students walk out for gun control

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