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Article snippet: The "March for Our Lives" rallies that took place in cities across the country on Saturday underscored the momentum of a political movement that emerged following a deadly mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school last month. The marches featured students delivering impassioned calls for Congress to pass stricter gun control measures, and drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of large cities and small towns alike. In Washington, the epicenter of the protests, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the Feb. 14 shooting took place, sought to galvanize support for the movement they started more than a month ago. Here are some of the highlights from Saturday: 1. Emma González's moment of silence Emma González, one of the survivors of the Parkland shooting, capped off a speech at the "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington with a stunning silence. "Six minutes and about 20 seconds," González said, breaking the silence. She then revealed that the pause equaled the amount of time that her high school had been terrorized by the shooter. "In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were injured, and everyone, absolutely everyone in the Douglas community was forever altered." 2. 11-year-old's emotional speech calling for reform In a speech in Washington, Naomi Wadler, an 11-year-old elementary school student from Virginia, rejected criticism that she and her peers were too young to understand the nuanc... Link to the full article to read more