From Staff Reports 

More than a dozen people — including a student who survived the Feb. 14 rampage by a shooter at a Florida High School — addresed a crowd that Asheville police estimated at more than 6,000 in Martin Luther King Jr. Park during a March 24 protest rally that was preceded by a march from Pack Square in downtown Ashevile.

The March for Our Lives featured an address by Anna Dittman, 16, who triggered tears by some in the crowd as the recounted her horrific experience of running from bullets at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The rampage left 17 dead.

Asheville’s rally was organized by high school girls from Western North Carolina. Fired by passion, they sought to bring an end to gun violence in schools.

The attendees chanted in unison “Enough is enough” while marching around downtown streets after the rally,