Organized by students in the wake of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland, Fla. last month, thousands participated in the rally March for Our Lives on Saturday to protest gun violence. Participants marched from Roxbury at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School down Columbus Ave. to Boston Common.

In anticipation of the March For Our Lives, one of the largest nationwide gun-control related protests in recent memory, students and alumni from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are continuing to push their gun-control agenda throughout a seven-day stretch dubbed Eagle Pride Week.

O’Malley said that he is pleased with the focus on gun control that the Democratic Party has as a whole, but wishes the federal government would step up on the issue.