He was for has more from Crown Heights. >> Launch Charter Middle School is right here. And while its students were here for a morning roll call and afternoon dismissal. What they did between those events was issue a very public call to action. I rather than be in class. Here's where students from launch Charter Middle School were on Wednesday morning out on the streets chanting. >> Carrying signs and marching with the message opposing gun violence for many of the 6th, 7th and 8th graders. This is personal my friend. >> got shot recently a couple months ago in the low couple weeks ago, accident around 2 in the head. The march and protest had been planned for weeks, but it happened days after 11 year-old impress Davis and her 9 year-old cousin rule on a Brown were hit by stray bullets from 2 gunmen. While the girls were at the playground. That's on the same street as the school where the students had their walkout climbers because like, >> what if I think my and I just I >> the people who run the school say this type of activity, creative protest done in partnership with the anti-violence organization, Save our streets is educational and empowering. I love that they're in a community with a feeling courage to speak up and out about things that matter to them. Still the challenges these kids face are real. The NYPD's own numbers show that in this part of Brooklyn, the 77th precinct shooting incident. Sarah, more than 33% in the last 4 weeks. And the number of shooting victims is up more than 66%. But the students say that by being visible and vocal where the violence has been, they make a difference to If they don't, they just taking the lives of the The march also took place 3 days after 15 year-old decide guy was killed in Brownsville, Brooklyn when his 12 year-old cousin shot him with a sawed off shotgun that the 2 were playing with, according to family members. It's why students here say it is so important for young people like them to draw attention to this issue to try and prevent tragedies like that from happening