SEE IT: High school students in Rockville stage walkout, protest against gun violence

ROCKVILLE, Md. (7News) — Students at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville staged a walkout Friday morning to take a stand against gun violence. Friday is also National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

Several students gathered outside the school, some holding signs and giving speeches.

"This building should not be a battleground, a grocery store should not turn into a warzone," one of the speakers said to the crowd of students. "Do you agree with that?" she asked as the crowd cheered her on.

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This comes after a gunman killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office a week after 19 students and two teachers were shot and killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas.

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On Thursday, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass restrictions on guns.