Parkland students to join rally against gun violence at UNC
A pair of survivors from the Valentine's Day school shooting in Parkland, Florida, will join hundreds of people Thursday evening at a rally against gun violence organized by students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Even though the rally is happening at UNC, college students from around the region plan to be at the second such rally on the Chapel Hill campus in recent weeks. Organizers said their goal is to keep the conversation about gun control alive.
Among the speakers will be Marjory Stoneman Douglas students Jaclyn Corin and Sarah Chadwick, who both helped organized the March For Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.
"People need to understand that we're not trying to take their guns," Corin said at the D.C. march. "We're just trying to make (it) harder to get guns and to (take) the weapons of war out of our streets."
Other speakers on Thursday will share how gun violence has made an impact in their lives and those close to them.
A few UNC students are alumni of Stoneman Douglas High School and have helped organize these demonstrations.
The rally gets underway at the campus quad at 5 p.m.
