On Saturday about 50 pro-gun activists marched up and down a single city block in Los Angeles as part of a national event.

Most of the activists were in their teens and early 20s who warned of the dangers of gun control laws and argued that older white men were not the only Americans to support pro-gun policies.

The march’s communications chair Michele DeGroote said that even though she was 15 now, when she goes to college she wanted to know that she will be safe and able to defend herself.