Students Organize “Town Hall For Our Lives” in Hickory
HICKORY, NC – Lawmakers and candidates spent part of their Saturday hearing from students worried about gun violence in schools.
More than 100 “Town Hall for Our Lives” events are being held across the country.
Saturday night, students in Hickory voiced their concerns at a local town hall at A Place to Talk Church.
“Weβre afraid. We donβt want to see that our schools turn into somewhere we have to be afraid to go,” explains University Christian High School Student Brock Pate.
Pate and fellow students from Catawba County say theyβre taking the next step in confronting the issues of gun violence and school safety.
“After our success with March For Our Lives on March 24th down in Hickory, really wanted to make sure the energy that we built up there did not go to waste,” Pate says.
The areaβs Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry was invited but didnβt show up.
Two of his opponents did: GOP challenger Gina Collias and Democrat David Wilson Brown.
They answered questions from students like Hickory High Senior Sarah Deforest.
She wants lawmakers to pay attention to what she and her classmates have to say.
“Theyβre the ones that are represting us, and theyβre not listening it feels like,” Deforst says.
