CINCINNATI (AP) — Thousands of people gathered Saturday in communities across Ohio at March For Our Lives rallies in a movement led by students from a Florida high school where 17 people were killed in a February shooting.
In Columbus, a rally began near COSI and then wound its way to the Ohio Statehouse with people chanting: “The NRA has got to go” and “No justice, no peace,” The Columbus Dispatch reported.
In Cincinnati, Young Feminists Coalition leader Rasleen Krupp told a crowd of hundreds of people that “our voices are being stifled,” The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
“At the end of this movement, we will be saving our own lives,” Krupp said. “But this is only the first mile.”
A crowd estimated at more than a thousand gathered first in Cleveland’s Public Square and then marched through downtown.
Around 800 rallies were planned across the U.S. on Saturday.