Students around the country protested gun violence Wednesday in the wake of a school shooting in Nashville that is just the latest example of students being the target of mass shootings.

In Manhattan, students from kindergarten through eighth grade walked out of school alongside staff at Central Park East II before gathering in the courtyard together and returning to class.

They carried signs and chanted slogans, asking for an end to gun violence.

“It’s making kids not feel safe in their own school, so I think people need to stop and they need to ban guns instead,” a seventh grader named Fatou said.

The nationwide walk-out was organized by Students Demand Action, a subgroup of the nonprofit gun control advocacy group Everytown, founded by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

While mass shootings inside schools have dominated headlines nationwide, several students noted that here in the city, young people have been shot on their way to and from school.

“I do get scared all the time when I’m walking home because I feel like one day I’m just gonna get a bullet, and I’m scared,” a fifth grader named Tianna said.

Some of the older students who walked out of high schools around the city traveled to Union Square, where they gathered together to make sure their voices were heard.

“Gun violence is the leading cause of death in America for young adults, students, so I’m just really passionate about it,” said a junior named Sofia, who founded the Students Demand Action group at Clinton High School.

She said she hopes the action from the students will translate into action from Washington.

“I hope lawmakers see this and they see our concerns and they stop sending their thoughts and prayers and they start sending some legislation that is going to help students,” she continued.