FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KOAA) — Mesa Ridge High School students organized a walkout to demand safer schools after two students were arrested for bringing weapons to campus last week.

El Paso County Sheriff's deputies arrested two students, saying one had a handgun and the other had an air soft gun. Students had to stay in their classrooms while deputies investigated the incident.

"I have never seen someone throw a desk against a door so fast and it is unfortunate that that is the world we live in," said Anime Hargis, a junior at Mesa Ridge High School.

The incident left students shaken and determined to take action.

"I've had to deal with gun threats several times in my life, but this was the closest we've ever gotten, and we should never get that close. There should never be a weapon in our

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