Students at Jonesboro High School pledge against gun violence

Jonesboro High School sophomores sign a pledge against gun violence in the Jonesboro High School courtroom. (Juma Sei/WABE)

Dwayne Dennis led with honesty when he spoke to the students, pledging against gun violence at Jonesboro High School (JHS).

“Imagine losing somebody that you loved,” Dennis said to the handful of teenagers gathered in the school’s courtroom.

“My firstborn child, my firstborn — the first time in my life that I loved something unconditionally and had something unconditionally love me.”