Thousands of Iowans and hundreds of thousands of Americans had a message for political leaders and the National Rifle Association.

The March for Our Lives rally was held around the nation Saturday as residents from every corner of the country spoke out against gun violence.

Central College Student Hannah Miller traveled to the state’s Capitol to support efforts to regulate the sale of firearms to keep them out of the hands of dangerous people.

“I’m here at the rally to strengthen gun control,” she says. “I’m here because I want to protect children and make it more difficult for guns to be accessed by people who have criminal histories.”

“There’s more forms for me to fill out at college and there’s more background checks when I go to babysit than there is when I go to buy a gun.”

Jackee Jones also attends Central and organized a group of students making the trip.

“I’m here because I support life and I feel like as a humanitary aspect of just us being humans, that we should come together and realize that we are just people at the end of the day and we deserve to live,” Jones says.

The March for Our Lives was organized by student survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 people dead.