Boise (670 KBOI News) – Hundreds, possibly as may as two thousand students and adults gathered on the Statehouse steps in downtown Boise today, to call for more gun control laws, one month after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Chanting “NRA, go away” and “what do we want, more gun laws”, the protesters moved inside, filling all the tiers of the Capitol Rotunda.

One girl told KBOI-2 TV schools aren’t doing enough to keep kids safe from potential school shooters.

“Like, the fact that in Meridian, a man walked into the school, and you know, fondled himself on camera, on a student’s phone,” she said.  “Like, that’s disgusting.  That could have easily been a gun.  This affects everyone.  It’s all over the nation, not just Florida, not just Texas, like everywhere.”

Today’s National School Walkout is a prelude to the national “March For Our Lives” on March 24th, which are funded by celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney and Steven Spielberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, ride sharking company Lyft, dating website Bumble.com, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group “Everytown for Gun Safety”.

While hundreds turned out in favor of gun control, only a few Second Amendment supporters came out to the Idaho Statehouse.

This man said what’s needed isn’t more gun control, but better mental health treatment.

“Every mass shooting is because people are on anti-psychotics (drugs),” he said.  “I guess that’s not a massive figure in mass shootings.  It’s because 90% are on anti-psychotics.”

He said the government needs to spend more time, money and effort on identifying people with mental health issues, and getting them the help they need.

He said those who can’t be helped need to be taken out of society and put somewhere they can’t hurt anyone