Students plan national ‘die-in’ to protest lawmakers’ failure to pass gun control

Students across the U.S. are planning to hold a “National Die-In Day” next month to protest lawmakers’ failure to pass gun control legislation.

The protest, set to be held on the second anniversary of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., will include die-ins in front of the U.S. Capitol and in Orlando, The Guardian reported.

The students organizing the day also hope that other demonstrations will be held at town halls and state capitols that day.

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Amanda Fugleberg, 18, is organizing the event. A high school senior from Orlando, Fugleberg told The Guardian that the protest in D.C. will last 12 minutes, representing the roughly 700 mass shootings that have taken place in the U.S. since the Pulse shooting.

Forty-nine people were killed and more than 50 others injured when a gunman opened fire at the gay nightclub nearly two years ago.

“It was just heartbreaking,” she said of the Pulse shooting. “That day, you just kept hearing the number [of the dead] rising and rising and rising. It really made me realize there’s a problem in our country with guns.”

Several student protests against gun violence have taken place in the weeks since the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school, including two national walkouts.