(CNN) Delilah Matrese is only 10 but she's very passionate about current events.

She made climate change the topic of a class project and "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver is her hero.

So when she heard that students from 2,500 schools across the country were preparing to walk out of their classes to demand gun control, Delilah, who attends Hamilton Elementary in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, asked her parents if she could join in.

Delilah Matrese

"She wasn't able to do the last walkout, so she begged us to let her do this one," her mother, Melissa Matrese, told CNN.

Matrese claims no other members of the faculty or students joined her daughter in the walkout. So her husband, Stephen, stepped in.

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