About 100,000 students in New York City joined the nationwide walkout to protest gun violence on the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo joined students at Leadership and Public Service High School in lower Manhattan, according to the New York Times. /VCG Photo

The New York City students converged on several central locations in the city – Columbus Circle, Battery Park and Lincoln Center – to protest the gun violence. /VCG Photo

Video from the protest shows Cuomo stretching himself out on the sidewalk and participating in the "die-in," lying on the ground and clapping as students chanted “Gun control now.” /VCG Photo

Cuomo also praised their desire to take matters into their own hand. “You have the students showing more leadership than the so-called leaders in Washington,” he said. “This is not a complicated issue.” /VCG Photo