Uvalde students walkout to protest gun violence: 'I'm scared of dying every day'

Uvalde students said they took inspiration from students in Nashville, Tennessee, who conducted a massive walkout on Monday related to The Covenant School shooting, which left three children and three faculty members dead. That walkout has led to days of peaceful protesting at the Tennessee state house.

"I'm very proud of my high school peers and everybody here. We saw junior high kids running down main street and that was the coolest thing ever to see the younger kids here helping us out with what we're trying to protest," Jackson Rhys Evans, a junior at Uvalde High School, told ABC News. Jazmin Cazares, sister to 9-year-old Jacklyn Cazares who was killed last May, said it's bittersweet to see so many students come together to protest gun violence.

"We are afraid to go out anywhere. This is everything we think about," said another, speaking through tears. Adam Martinez, parent of a Robb Elementary survivor and a UCISD junior high student, and founder of Uvalde-based community improvement group KARAMA, told ABC News that he has no faith in the district's ability to make decisions in the best interest of their students.

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