February 14 marks the one-year anniversary since a gunman took the lives of 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

To honor the date, students from March for Our Lives UNC created a memorial in the campus’ student union to pay tribute to the victims.

In the year since the shooting, members of the Orange County community have been heavily involved in protesting gun violence.

On the one-month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, students from across high schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district walked out of class in coordination with a national movement that pushed for legislative action on firearm regulations. A second walk-out occurred in April to honor the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine shooting.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper also called for stronger background checks in the wake of the shooting, saying North Carolina needed “to strengthen the background check system to make our communities safer and keep guns from violent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill.”

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