This year's Iowa legislative session kicked off Monday with student protestors filling the Capitol rotunda to call for stricter gun laws just days after a school shooting in Perry, Iowa, that left one 11-year-old boy dead and seven other people wounded.
High school and college students in the Des Moines area walked out of classes and came to the Iowa Capitol, where a couple hundred people rallied in response to last week’s shooting about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northwest of Des Moines. Students were joined by parents, activists and Democratic legislators just hours after the 2024 session official began.
