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After Houston school shooting, Utahns protest gun violence

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Over 70 members of March For Our Lives SLC, high school students and concerned citizens gather at the Utah Capitol, Friday, May 18, 2018, to demand gun reform and honor the 10 dead who were killed during Friday morning's shooting spree inside Santa Fe High School in southeast Texas. The participants staged a 22-minute die-in for the 22 school shootings already in 2018.

Local March for Our Lives organizers gathered at the Utah Capitol on Friday, hours after a gunman killed 10 people at a Houston-area high school.

“We are heartsick and furious about the inaction on the part of Congressional leaders that has allowed this violence to take hold of the lives of students across the country,” the group wrote in a news release. “Lives were ruined today because of the continued prioritization of weapon access over human lives.”

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