Guns down, voices up,” voices could be heard chanting on Wednesday afternoon outside an East Williamsburg charter school. About 40 people had gathered to protest guns, for the second year in a row, following a shooting last year that wounded three. 

Other chants included “No more silence, End gun violence” and, less colorfully, “What do we want? Change.” 

Organized by the high school and a local activist organization called New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the group used the afternoon school day to march from Williamsburg Charter High School on Varet Street to the nearby Justice Gilbert Ramirez Park, right by the Morgan L stop.