The students in her state Iowa plan to walk out of school today and demonstrate in the US state capital, asking lawmakers to take action on gun violence after an 11-year-old boy died and five others were injured in a school shooting on last week.

Students from at least 12 High Schools are expected to protest outside the state parliament building in Des Moines at 1 p.m. local time (21.00 Greek time), as MPs begin their legislative work for 2024.

The group organizing the mobilization, h March For Our Lives“is asking the Iowa State Legislature to support communities and school systems currently facing the threat of gun violence,” she said in a post on Instagram. “Your inaction is killing us.”

In particular, the organizers hope to convince the deputies to stop the approval of a law, which is supported by the Republicans and which would allow guns to be kept in cars and schools.

The rally comes four days after a 17-year-old high school student shot and killed an 11-year-old student and wounded five others at a school in Abouta rural community near Des Moines.

It was one of four such incidents in the first week of the year, after 2023 saw a record number of similar attacks on US schools, according to the K-12 Schools Database.

The data shows that 346 incidents occurred in 2023 in which the perpetrator threatened or fired a weapon inside a school. This is the largest number of such incidents on record since the organization began keeping records in 1966.