Students in Maryland and across the country participated in school walkouts to demand safer schools.

Around noon Friday, students at Ridgely Middle School and Annapolis High School were among those participating across the country in school walkouts that were organized by Students Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety to demand more gun violence prevention efforts.

Students carried signs and chanted for safer schools, with a rallying cry of “Books not Bullets,” reflecting their fear of school shootings. The rally comes after last week’s school shooting in Minneapolis, in which a shooter killed two children and hurt 21 others.

“I just don’t want to see anyone lost,” said Neil Horton, an eighth-grade Ridgely student who created signs for the walkout. “I don’t want any schools being a

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