When students across the country walked out of classes Wednesday in memory of the 17 people who died in a massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, some of them knew that they could face consequences in the form of truancy marks, detention, or even suspension from school.

But they walked out anyway.

We talked to high school students from across the country who defied teachers and school administrators to make their voices heard in the movement against gun violence — even if it meant getting into trouble for it.

“If you’re not willing to take the consequence, you don’t care enough about the issue,” said Zoë Kuhn, a high school sophomore in Goshen, Kentucky. “You don’t understand the fact that yes, you got 30 minutes of detention. That’s inconvenient to you but those kids that got killed or injured, they can never go back to school. “