Last week’s headlines and photographs will likely stick with many of us for a long time to come: young people streaming out of schools across the nation on Wednesday morning; 7,000 pairs of shoes laid out at the U.S. Capitol, representing victims of gun violence, and teens simply standing together in silence, honoring the 17 people killed at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month.

In Seattle, King County Executive Dow Constantine showed up last Wednesday in solidarity with students at West Seattle High School, thanking them for using their right to free speech. Gov. Jay Inslee joined students in Ballard as they protested. And Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan held a town hall few days earlier focused on students stopping gun violence. On Vashon, more than 100 students, primarily from the high school and the middle school, participated last Wednesday, leaving their classes and gathering in front of the schools. Here, school administrators walked a careful line, allowing students to take part and exercise their free speech rights, but being frank about the consequences: unexcused absences at the high school and no participation allowed in same-day sports games. Some other schools in the region offered more flexibility, and others across the nation offered less, suspending students and doling out detention to those who participated.

It made for a notable juxtaposition: Government officials joined students and praised them for taking action, but sometimes that action drew negative consequences.

The events of last week are behind us, but there is much work ahead on this issue — and many different opinions on how best to proceed. Some gun control advocates, however, including the group Everytown for Gun Safety, suggest that even a small number of changes could greatly reduce the number of gun-related deaths — 35,000 each year — across the country. Those changes include closing loopholes on background checks, keeping guns away from domestic abusers, educating about safe storage and stopping the flow of illegal guns.

After years of no progress on gun safety, maybe this is the time some of those changes can be made, thanks to the teens in Florida — and beyond — who are saying, “Enough is enough.” Many of them have helped organize this Saturday’s March for Our Lives events in Washington D.C., with sister marches across the county.

This Saturday, Vashon will host one of those marches, which will begin, fittingly enough, at the high school.

We stand with the teens here and throughout the country who are taking action, saying never again. We hear you. We support you. Enough is enough.