High Schoolers speak out on upcoming gun referendum vote [Video]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – On Thursday high schoolers from around Memphis came out to Central High School to get their message across to voters about the gun referendum before November.

“I didn’t know if I was going to make it out, I didn’t know if any of my classmates were safe,” Lyric Vales said.

Vales was describing the moments her school went on lockdown for fear of an active shooter earlier this year, a situation that she says changed the way she thinks about gun laws.

“The first time we had a threat it kind of changed my perspective on the whole thing, the day just sprung so much fear into me,” Vales said.

Vales was just one of the group of students that hosted a Youth-Led Press Conference on the Memphis Gun Referendums on the November ballot. All the student’s said people don’t know what they are going through in the classroom when …