juan: i would like to bring ezri tyler back into the conversation. a national school walkout today, wednesday. is it your sense that given the inability of grown adults and politicians to be able to do something about gun violence that it will necessitate the continued disruption of the public school system by high school students walking out to force change in our government policies? >> high school students have been walking up for years to demand change on this issue. i started in this movement five years ago when we began with a tragic parkland shooting at 13 years old where i felt it was my duty to walk out of my middle school. the national walkouts, a huge show that all of these coalitions are in unity on this. the biggest it with the nationwide walkouts as they are drawing attention to the fact there is not only inaction but flagrant disgrace and disregard for students and the continued organizing. that is why your also needing to discuss -- it is even more disrespectful to these voters was to view the voters are consistently turning out and w

times their age do absolutely nothing joining me now are march for our lives student organizers ezrie tylere i'll let you all talk. ezrie, i will start with you it is embarrassing, i think, for every generation older than yours, that this fight belongs to you two young college students talk about that burden and why you're in this fight >> absolutely. it absolutely is embarrassing to them i joined this movement when i was 13 years old when i organized my own middle school walkout five years ago in response to the parkland shooting i felt responsible the peers and the people around me and my community was impacted every single day it felt like it was something i had to do and could engage in that fight but here i am this week organizing this walkouts and protests and meeting people as young as 6 years old coming out. people protesting for their very first times because they do feel responsible and do feel like they're the only people who can take up this fight because the adults are ignoring them. >> brynn, how did it impact you all? how did you feel when the response of tennessee's majority

. >> i want to bring int students who helped organize these protests, brynn jones an ezri tyler, our ers fro vanderbilt university. you have both been organizin and protesting at the stat house since monday ezri, who are these protesters and what drives you to be there? >> yeah, absolutely. these protesters is a broa coalition of students across every single level o education. we have students as young as six years old coming out we have menace coolers highschoolers. and we also have universitie seen from across not only th city of nashville but also across the state we have busloads of students coming from memphis, fro knoxville, to support th representatives. and besides our students w have a coalition of parents an elected officials at every level, from school, boards all the way to our state reps that we are standing behind now >> and brynn, you wrote in the tennessean, quote, i have message for the members of the tennessee legislature. shame on you shame on you for spending time and taxpayer money on bannin books and drag, trying t rename streets in nashville an reducing the size

but ezrie tyler of the student led march for our lives says that's not the end of the road. >> there's also real and impactful changes that can be made as local as the school board level. >> reporter: the tennessee vote comes one day after thousands of students across the country walked out of their classrooms. >> people shouldn't have to be scared of going to school every day. >> reporter: demanding action to stop gun violence. before today there have only been three other times since the civil war when tennessee house members have expelled their elected colleagues. in washington, alice barr, nbc news. >>> in texas some parents there are taking the matter of school safety into their own hands. a mother in fort worth founded the nonprofit texans against school violence. she says she start this had program to still a security gap at elementary schools. middle and high schools have school resource officers but elementary schools do not. so the organization pays to sayings off-duty police officers at schools. this week the organizers and police officers went to the state capitol to suppor

joining us now, university students and march for our lives organizers, brynn jone and ezri tyler, bothm going to star with you your thoughts on these lawmakers being expelled for protesting gun violence, wha does this say to you about democracy in your state? >> i think it's as something we've known for a long time, which is that the lawmakers ar scared of the power of the youth vote if these people that have show up and stood with us are being punished with standing wit student voices not only did we organize last, week we've had almost 11 day of continuous action on th capitol. we sat in for 12 hours durin the expulsion because thes lawmakers have tried to silenc us so thoroughly we won't stand for that. we are making it clear that we are with not only these three, but with the entire communit that they are attempting t silence. >> i don't need to tell yo this, these expulsions hav garnered national attention, all eyes are on tennessee. there are a lot of analysts wh are not from tennessee and not of tennessee, who do not liv in tennessee, who say this could be the beginning of polit