Students rallied outside a St. Louis high school on Friday morning as teens across the country take over the gun debate.
About 80 students walked out of Clayton High School at 11 a.m. and held a news conference on the edge of the campus. As the ones going to concerts, classrooms and soon college campuses — all places targeted in recent mass shootings — they told reporters they want a say in how the country responds to gun violence.
"At any moment, someone could walk into our school, CHS, with a fully loaded assault weapon and take the lives of our students and faculty before I could even blink an eye," Catriona Docherty, a junior at the school, said.
She was one of eight students from an American government class who spoke while elected officials and dozens of classmates filled in behind them.…