Sarah Dowling doesn’t know a world where kids are safe from guns at school.
“We’ve grown up doing active shooter drills since before we could even read,” the 17-year-old said.
Dowling is one of the organizers of the Georgia March for Our Lives: a march that went through the Old Fourth Ward – a historic bedrock of the Civil Rights Movements – to Woodruff Park in Downtown Atlanta on Saturday to advocate for safer schools through gun control.
Sarah Dowling, movement organizer for Georgia’s March of Our Lives leads the crowd in a chant during a rally in Woodruff Park, Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, June 11, 2022. (Matthew Pearson/For WABE)
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