This is a live blog of the events at Denver's downtown March For Our Lives rally. Refresh this page regularly for updates.
4:51 p.m.: The march is over.
3:52 p.m.: The march began a little over an hour late after Maddie King, the last speaker, left the podium.
3:36 p.m.: Maddie King, a 17-year-old student and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland took the podium last.
She detailed the horror of the day, February 14, where 17 people were shot and killed at the school.
"My building was directly next to the building the shooter was in - and he shot out the windows that hit the wall of my building," she said. "The longest few minutes of my life, came when we heard the SWAT team evacuating the people in the classroom next to us."
She said she and her classmates had been hiding for over an hour.
In her speech, she went on to say that universal background checks aren't enough; people need to be trained on how to use a gun before they can buy them. She said permits need to be required for review every few years.
"I don't have to have gone to college for eight years to know guns are dangerous and that something needs to change," she said. "Where's my proof? My friends are dead. People are dying and you aren't doing anything."
3:27 p.m: 10-year-old Olivia Claudi from Lakewood took the podium - she's been an activist since she was just 7. She told the crowd she had a big opinion on guns.
"I want to see a world where kids aren't targeted and murdered by evil people wanting to be more famous than the last shooter," she told the crowd. "But our world looks more like a war zone - my 14-year-old brother was sent home from school just days after the Florida shooting because of a bomb threat. People acted like this was normal."
She told the crowd just a few weeks ago she was at school when the active shooter alarm went off. She said her best friend begged her to stop crying because she would give them away.
"Thankfully, for my class, this was a false alarm; a kid in the office pushed the active shooter alarm button," she said. "Yeah - that's a thing now."
3:21 p.m.: Sara Grossman, the friend of a victim of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida took the stage. Forty-nine people were killed at the shooting that left another 50 injured.
"Who was there for us after Sandy Hook? Not Congress, but Moms Demand Action. Who was there after pulse?" she said. "Neither the politicians locally or nationally but the gay community. A community who already had to spend the last century in a fight for acceptance. Who was there for us?"
3:09 p.m.: Coni Sanders, the daughter of a teacher Dave Sanders killed in the Columbine shooting, took the podium to decry "greedy politicians" and mentioned Colorado's GOP senator Cory Gardner.
"They have nothing on this wild crowd because they are only fighting for a paycheck," she said. "We are fighting for our lives. And today - we're scaring them. But their fear of losing money doesn't even come close to our fear of being shot."
3:06 p.m.: Sam Craig, the organizer of the Jeffco walkouts earlier this month, took the podium to decry politicians doing nothing to further gun conto.
"We have finally had enough and we will stop at nothing to make sure no school, community or human being has to go through this again," he told the crowd. "I will make my voice heard. I have seen my friends stepping up across the nation to do what our politicians won't."
He plugged the next rally event - April 19, 'Vote For Our Lives.' He said people will gather at Clement Park in Littleton at 5:30 p.m. to honor those lost in 1999 in the Columbine shooting.
3:01 p.m.: Dang had to be interrupted so medics could help someone in the crowd. She was welcomed back to the stage momentarily. 9NEWS does not know have any information at this time.
2:55 p.m.: Diana Dang, a survivor of the May 23, 2014, Isla Vista shooting, took the podium. The California shootings left six dead and 14 injured.
"I will not speak of his name because he does not deserve it," she said.
Instead, she said the names of the six victims of the shooting.
"Four years later, I've become so numb to the patterns and responses after a school shooting occurs. The media will focus on mental health - politicians and lawmakers will send their thoughts and prayers - no more," she said.
2:46 p.m.: Marcus Weaver was the next person to take the podium.
"My name is Marc Weaver, I'm a survivor of a mass shooting. On July 20, 2012... during a midnight screening of The Dark Night Rises, a man dressed in tactical gear threw tear gas and shot into the crowd."
Marcus Weaver survived the shooting at a Century 16 theater in Aurora that left a dozen people dead. 70 people were injured - 58 from gunfire.
"There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about what happened to me here in Colorado - or any of the victims or family of the victims from all of the frequent shootings. Keep them in your prayers and thoughts, because we say 'no more!'" he told the crowd.
2:40 p.m.: Survivors of the 2013 Arapahoe High School shooting, Ally Olsen and Brooke Engel, took the podium.
"Far too many kids like me are hiding in the back of their classrooms, praying, crying and hoping they made it out of there alive," Olsen said. "Far too many students are living in communities who say, 'we never thought it would happen to us.' But we've had enough."
"Before it happened to me and to my school, I never fought for gun control," Engel said. "I advocate that those for guns are not the enemy. They are advocating for what they believe is right. It took me fearing for my life to change my feelings. I plead with my fellow Americans - don't wait for it to happen to you!"
2:36 p.m.: U.S. Senator Michael Bennett (D-Colorado) was shouted out. He was in attendance.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Denver) was also shouted out and touted her 'F' rating from the NRA. The gun rights advocacy group gives elected officials grades based upon their support for the second amendment.
2:26 p.m.: Tom Mauser, the father of Daniel Mauser - a teen slain in the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School shooting - took the stage.
"You get tired of hearing the NRA dismissing - their time is up. They've done nothing to end our shameful gun violence," he told the crowd. "The status quo is killing us. It's time for us to make change."
2:20 p.m.: Tish Beauford, the organizer of the Denver Women's March, takes the stage. She opened by talking about how her only son who was supposed to be at the Aurora Theater on July 20, 2012, when the shooting there happened.
"His last words were to me, 'Mom, I'm gonna take a nap and then go to the movie,' because he was such a big DC comics fan," she said. She then went to bed.
She said she woke up the next morning to 25 messages saying there had been a mass shooting at the theater. Panicked - she went and checked on her son. He'd stayed asleep throughout the night.
"I was blessed, and God spared me and my family - and kept my child here," she said. "But for those innocent lives that had been taken by gun violence in our schools, in our public domains, by domestic violence - I say to you: no more."
2:16 p.m.: Attendees observe a moment of silence as Reverend Tammy Williams leads those gathered in prayer. "Shalom, salam and amen: peace!" she said as she left the podium.
2:13 p.m.: Organizers chanted "Show me what democracy looks like!" as Reverend Tammy Williams is brought on stage to begin a moment of silence for gun violence victims.
2:10 p.m.: Speakers have taken the podium and begun to address the crowd. "It should have ended with Columbine."
2 p.m.: People are chanting “ban assault rifles” as they wait for Denver’s March for Our Lives to begin, says 9NEWS reporter Jordan Chavez.
1:57 p.m.: Civic Center Park is packed as teachers, students and families wait to hear the speakers at the March for Our Lives Denver.
Below is information from our previous coverage of the rally:
Hundreds of thousands of people young and old are marching all over the world in protest of gun violence in schools.
Denver's march is set for 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon - four hours after the Washington, D.C. rally started. It's one of 800 in the U.S.
The March for Our Lives organizers in Denver have said they hope for 30,000 at their rally downtown. Attendees will begin to gather at Civic Center Park at Bannock and 14th Avenue at 2 p.m. and the march begins 45 minutes later.
