Fairview High School student Ayesha Rawal was in class one Friday morning last month when the school was placed on lockdown[1] after someone called police to report a student seen carrying a rifle.
"I can tell you those 15 minutes were the scariest of my life," Rawal told about 30 people gathered at Boulder's Glen Huntington Bandshell on Saturday afternoon. "I've never felt that much fear as I did during those 15 minutes."
Rawal is among several Fairview students who hosted a town hall style meeting on Saturday, an inaugural event of sorts for the newly formed Boulder Valley School District chapter of Students Demand Action, an organization working toward solutions to gun violence in the United States.
Numerous student-led organizations and events have occurred in the aftermath of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February that left 17 students and staff members dead in Parkland, Fla.
Organizers billed Saturday's Boulder town hall event as being nonpartisan and for the purposes of discussing gun safety measures and mental health issues — and not a forum on the Second Amendment.
#Caden McGhie, an organizer of the Boulder Valley School District chapter of Students Demand Action, talks about the organization. pic.twitter.com/S2md6ntmrL[2][3]
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Democratic state Reps. Jonathan Singer and Mike Foote spoke to the crowd as did numerous people in attendance, all of whom were allotted two minutes to talk.
Foote, a candidate for Boulder County district attorney, said he's been impressed by the large-scale mobilization of students in the aftermath of the Parkland massacre.
"It's tragic that it happened, but it's fantastic that the students are
