Gallery: March For Our Lives - Columbus March 24, 2018Ris Twigg Thousands gathered at West Bank Park to protest the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida and advocate for gun-reform during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Several screens scattered across West Bank Park displayed statistics on gun violence throughout the event, including how black men are thirteen times more likely than white men to be shot and killed with guns. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Voting was emphasized as a strategy for gun reform throughout the entire March For Our Lives in Columbus, with many demonstrators touting signs that read "Voting is my superpower." Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Members young and old of The Little Minyan Kehillah, a Jewish Congregation in Columbus, sing about speaking out against violence during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor A sign next to the main stage at the March For Our Lives in Columbus reads "The love of killing machines is killing our kids." Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Drew Gillins shared his experience with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder after surviving the 2012 school shooting at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio. "I was 100 percent sure that was the day I was going to die," he said during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Annika Carroll, Izzy Smith and her newborn Whitley Smith hold signs at the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor A woman holds a sign in the shape of an American flag listing the names of each school or university where a mass shooting has taken place. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Teresa Dendy used to be a school teacher and participated in the March For Our Lives in Columbus because she and her students were forced into a lockdown during an active shooter situation. "You just don't get over it," Dendy said. The top sign shows what students look like when an active shooter is in the building, she said, and the bottom sign is of a school official changing the school library sign to school armory. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Thousands of families, children, students and teachers filled the entirety of the West Bank Park south of COSI during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Ruby, 6, holds a sign that says "Cling to children, not guns." Ruby attended the March For Our Lives in Columbus with her parents and younger brother on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor A parachute created by Ohio State students reads "RUN. HIDE. FIGHT. March For Our Lives" is arranged on the Rich Street Bridge prior to the start of the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Thousands gathered and held signs at West Bank Park to protest the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida and advocate for gun-reform during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Demanding that the march commence, participants walked across the Rich Street Bridge near COSI before the official permit start time for the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Parade marshals hold the official March For Our Lives banner while waiting for the cue to take the streets during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Protesters stage a "die-in" on the Rich Street Bridge in Columbus at the March for Our Lives demonstration on March 24, 2018. The participants observed a moment of silence for the seventeen victims of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14, 2018. Credit: Casey Cascaldo | Lantern Photographer Students from Groveport Madison High School hold a banner at the front of the march with the hashtag #NeverAgain moments before the March For Our Lives in Columbus hit the streets on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Activists wait for the March for Our Lives demonstration to begin on the Rich Street Bridge in Downtown Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Casey Cascaldo | Lantern Photographer Participants line the Rich Street Bridge in Columbus as they wait for the march to begin on March 24, 2018. Credit: Casey Cascaldo | Lantern Photographer Students, teachers, professors, parents and babies all attended the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Protesters marched from West Bank Park to the Statehouse and back demanding gun reform. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Protesters return to the starting point of the march at the Rich Street Bridge at the March for Our Lives demonstration in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Casey Cascaldo | Lantern Photographer An elementary student marches with her family down High Street near the Ohio Statehouse carrying a sign that says both "gun safe" and "unsafe" on March 24, 2018 during the March For Our Lives in Columbus. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Protesters flood the courtyard outside the Statehouse demanding gun reform during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Protesters storm the steps of the Statehouse guarded by police officers demanding gun reform and protection for children in schools during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor A man dressed in camouflage smiles while marching to the Statehouse holding a sign that reads "Licensed, registered hunter: it's illegal to use these [AR-15s] to hunt. We don't need them!" Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a democrat, speaks from the steps of The Ohio Statehouse to address the current state of politics in the country at the March for Our Lives demonstration in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Casey Cascaldo | Lantern Photographer Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor A sign with four crayons and one bullet on it was left on the ground after the March For Our Lives in Columbus and reads "One of these does not belong." Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Ohio State student Finley Kocher, a first-year studying neuroscience, leads a chant using a megaphone in front of the Statehouse at the March for Our Lives demonstration in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Casey Cascaldo | Lantern Photographer An older man who wheeled the entirety of the march holds up his sign, which reads "Nay to the NRA. Let our children live." Although a significant portion of protesters were children and young adults, demonstrators from all generations participated in the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Protesters took to the streets outside the Statehouse during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24 to advocate for common-sense gun reform following the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida that left 17 students dead on Feb. 14, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor A family marches to the front of the Statehouse during the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018, with signs that read "books not bullets" and "no more guns." Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Many activists at the march criticized the National Rifle Association for funding politicians and putting "profit over people" in regards to gun control. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor Twin sisters are pulled down High Street outside the Statehouse by their parents with a sign that says "We want adults to stop fighting and help us not die at school." Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor As they left, demonstrators placed their signs on the fence surrounding the Statehouse at the conclusion of the March For Our Lives in Columbus on March 24, 2018. Credit: Ris Twigg | Assistant Photo Editor
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