Hunter High was one of the many schools in Utah to participate in the walkout on February 21, 2018 for the 17 students that were killed in the Parkland, Florida school shooting. Students from Hillcrest High in Midvale sent around a post on social media announcing the walkout to be at 10:00 a.m. So as you know when 10:00 a.m. hit, students from all over Utah (including Hunter high) walked out of their classrooms, and out the doors of the school to have a moment of silence (17 minutes to be exact) for the 17 students in Florida who were killed.

We are against gun violence, as we should be. The students who walked out for that moment of silence, definitely are not selfish. To those students involved in the shooting and survived, they didn’t deserve to go through that. No student should be afraid to walk in to their school in fear that something bad is going to happen. No parent should have to be afraid to send their kids to school. School is supposed to be a place where students are in a safe environment so they can get their education to go further with their lives.

Now to the shooter. Sometimes things get hard, and people upset you. You think of all those times that people have affected your life oh so badly and tell yourself  the only thing that will make everything better is to put their lives in danger. You thinking hurting other people is the answer because some of them have hurt you, mentally or even psychically. Well, violence is never the answer.

Guns were not made to harm people. Guns were made for protection, or for hunting, not for harming lives of other humans. It’s kind of sad that administrators all over the world are wanting to be armed with guns in their classrooms so they can be the ones to protect the students as much as they can. No administration wants anything bad to happen in their school, and that’s why they’re so strict with what goes on at schools. Gun violence, or any violence in that matter is very scary and we all need to have each others backs.

This walkout was amazing and showed everybody how together we as a school really are. Hunter High is no supporter of gun violence.