host: joining us now in the studio is lane murdoch, the petition starter for the change that were petition that led to the national school walkout, and she is a student and rich hill high school in connecticut. lane, thank you so much for being here. decisionus, how your to push for this national walkout came about. ? ? it was february on valentine's day, it was a -- you can to hearing the news out of parkland. i think this is something that has become deeply desensitized in our country, and once i realized that was reflecting upon that, i thought there was a need for change, so i made the petition. it was that thought. to bed and woke up, and we had something crazy like 1000 signatures and it kept growing. host: and you were talking about how you, yourself felt even though the shooting happened thousands of miles away, talk about how this impacted you personally. have you seen or witnessed gun violence, or was it the impact of the connection of being a student? guest: anyway, it is a common nation. i am in connecticut and live 20 minutes away from sandy hook, and i was in elementary schoo

host: joining us now in the studio is lane murdoch, the petition starter for the change that were petition that led to the national school walkout, and she is a student and rich hill high

joining us now is lane murdoch. chool student from ridgefield, connecticut, a town minutes away from sandy hook elementary school. sally kerrigan joins us as well, she's a survivor of the columbine high school shooting. lane organized the national walkout on april 20th. which is also the anniversary of the mass shootings at columbine high school in 1999. both of these people are activists against is gun violence, they're participating in today's march. thank you for both of you for being here. you played a role in the march 14th walkouts across the nation. what do those achieve? and what message are you trying to send? >> i think they send a wonderful symbolic representation to all the students across the country. i think right now is getting all that symbolism together and turning it into real change. i think they're also just a great way to teach kids organizing empowerment. other than just the day after and the day during. >> one thing that stood out to me is these were remarkable, march 14th were remarkable walko